EvidenceCare

APRIL 16, 2024

This comprehensive guide provides hospital and revenue cycle leadership with vital insights on preparing for CERT audits and establishing processes for compliant documentation. This section delves into the specific criteria and expectations set by CERT audits, emphasizing the need for meticulous attention to detail and documentation accuracy.

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Health Prime

MARCH 21, 2024

Additionally, clear communication of patient responsibilities, such as copays or deductibles, during scheduling promotes transparency. Moreover, this commitment to accuracy in coding and documentation supports a smooth transition from patient care to the billing process.

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Valant

APRIL 1, 2024

Compliance Furthermore, adherence to regulatory requirements and best practices is a need throughout any EHR migration. Practices must ensure compliance with HIPAA regulations and other industry standards to protect patient data privacy and security during the migration process.

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Valant

JANUARY 30, 2024

Common audit requirements help providers maintain practices that align with the highest standards of care. Data Collection and Documentation What’s involved in insurance audits varies. Typically, auditors review clinical and financial data during mental health practice audits.

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Valant

APRIL 17, 2024

However, managing these plans at scale is a complex task that often creates headaches for clinicians and directors in large outpatient behavioral health practices. If you’re struggling to manage the logistics of treatment plan documentation and wondering how you’ll cope in light of practice growth, be encouraged.

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Valant

JULY 5, 2024

Streamline Documentation: Use digital forms and automated systems to collect patient information before their first visit. Pre-Visit Communication: Ensure patients receive all necessary information before their appointment, including directions or telehealth instructions.

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Walker Info - Patient Experience

JULY 18, 2023

For more standard situations, a best practice is for the assigned owner to contact the customer within two to five business days. A simple three-step process for the “owners” of the follow-up is to review the customer’s feedback, call the customer, and document the outcomes.

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Valant

APRIL 24, 2024

You and your client should work together to identify the long-term goals of therapy, and to maintain open communication about the objectives you’ll use to reach them. Improves communication with client. Remember to communicate clearly with your clients about their goals, and check in on their progress regularly.

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Relias

MAY 13, 2024

Education and teamwork simulation training can help ensure the best outcomes. Nurses must have a robust knowledge of nursing maneuvers for shoulder dystocia and best practices for supporting the provider during the shoulder dystocia delivery process. What causes shoulder dystocia?

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Valant

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

A comprehensive treatment plan template tailored for behavioral health promotes standardized and evidence-based care, ensuring that practitioners follow best practices while addressing the unique needs of each individual client. In addition, they can enhance communication and collaboration among a client’s care team.

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Valant

AUGUST 1, 2024

From the moment you write out the job description, you are making decisions that will either help or hurt your chances of drawing ideal candidates, so keep a few best practices in mind. Also consider how best to communicate your practice’s atmosphere and mission to the interviewee.

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Valant

APRIL 2, 2024

Performance Reporting: The ability to focus on metrics such as patient retention, insurance aging, and billing documentation status goes a long way towards practice efficiency. Clinical Workflow Improvement EHR data can reveal gaps in care delivery, such as missed appointments or incomplete documentation.

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Nursing is dynamic as patients, acuity, staffing, and medical best practices constantly change. Excellence in knowledge, communication, quality, and safety—no matter the realm, the focus should be excellence. The inception of best practices. What are the most important attributes of today’s nursing leaders?

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Medical Advantage

MARCH 28, 2024

In this blog, we will explore patient engagement best practices and the top patient engagement tools available. Patient education : Through educational resources, patients can gain a better understanding of their health matters and treatment options, which can lead to more productive communication with healthcare providers.

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Valant

MARCH 2, 2024

Here are some things to consider before making the switch: Assessing Readiness for In-House Billing Because so many aspects of running a practice tie back to billing, it’s important for a practice to thoroughly consider the impacts and the preparation needed.

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Southern Careers Institute

JULY 31, 2023

MAs today play a vital role in managing and updating EHRs to ensure accurate and accessible patient information, streamline administrative tasks, and facilitate open communication within the healthcare team. Medical assistants must hone their communication skills to foster positive working relationships with other team members.

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Bell-Brown Medical Institute

APRIL 15, 2022

This person not only has extensive knowledge in all areas related to patient care and documentation maintenance. She/he also knows how best practices to apply these skills every day at work while managing her own schedule like nobody else could do better than herself/himself.

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Valant

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Marketing a behavioral health practice is about clearly communicating your expertise and the value of your services. Relevant, high-quality content can improve your SEO rankings, making it easier for potential clients to find you online. Mobile optimization is also important, as many users may access your site from their smartphones.

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Valant

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

They provide insights into revenue streams, expenses, and overall profitability, allowing practice managers to make informed decisions about resource allocation, budgeting, and strategic planning. Furthermore, accurate patient engagement reports provide valuable insights into patient interactions, satisfaction levels, and treatment adherence.

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CollaborateMD

JANUARY 3, 2024

RELATED ARTICLE: Checklist to Ensure HIPAA Compliance at Your Practice Best Practices for HIPAA-Compliant Medical Billing Software As the healthcare industry continues to evolve, it is imperative to have HIPAA compliant medical billing software in place. Practice your disaster recovery plan often and update it as needed.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

With this integrated approach to risk, the OIG highlights best practices to help healthcare entities fulfill their commitment to compliance with a focus on company-wide involvement driven by leadership. Communicate the organization’s mission and ethical requirements. Work closely across departments and disciplines.

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Relias

APRIL 17, 2024

2 – Assess needs Conduct a needs assessment and a literature review to identify the current and future needs of your organization and your nursing staff, as well as best practices and evidence from programs from other organizations. Levels should reflect the different stages of nursing practice, from novice to expert.

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Coronis Health

AUGUST 10, 2023

Best practices in hospital billing and coding processes are key to guiding coders as they navigate the complexities of chart documentation. Revision of the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, changing the way providers are reimbursed for evaluation and management services, which affects coding and documentation requirements.

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Walker Info - Patient Experience

MAY 16, 2023

In a nutshell, this inventory will help you learn about and document the types of operational data that exist within your company, the owners of the data, when and how it’s collected, and more. Completing the inventory involves engaging with stakeholders in the functional areas of your enterprise.

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Relias

AUGUST 9, 2023

The best-made plans are laid to waste if there’s no effective communication from the top down within an accessible channel. Keep your corporate compliance in check with an accessible mode of communication. There isn’t a test you can put in front of them to know whether they’re employing best practices.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

At least 150 Google employees already have access to much of the data on tens of millions of patients, according to a person familiar with the matter and the documents.” I’ve pointed to the Dignity Health campaign #HelloHumanKindness as a best practice communications and branding strategy for helping heal healthcare.

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Practice Index

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Best practice would be that this was brought up as soon as it was apparent there was an issue. And whatever feedback has been given, whatever concerns the employee has raised, whatever next steps have been agreed, all this needs documenting on the appraisal paperwork afterwards. Am I allowed to bring this up in their appraisal?

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Valant

AUGUST 20, 2024

Become familiar with the mandates and best practices that will contribute to a safe and effective treatment environment: Maintain confidentiality. Decide how you’ll communicate for this task—patient portal, phone, email? Documentation: How will you document the group session along with assessing each individual as needed?

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Arkenea

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

With access to an AI service that has reviewed every documented case, the accuracy of matching symptoms to patient issues will increase. Across the board it will streamline and improve processes and communications. We also use AI services through meeting minutes, schedules, documentation summaries and in several other areas.

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Walker Info - Patient Experience

OCTOBER 7, 2021

By documenting all customer interactions, companies can analyze how each touchpoint impacts customer loyalty and satisfaction. Soliciting communication. The best way for assessing the customer experience is by asking the customer base what they think. Building the customer relationship.

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Valant

MARCH 1, 2024

Obtaining consent from patients at each step along the way is a best practice that helps protect patients’ rights and privacy. Those professionals will have important insights on how to start a therapy practice. For many behavioral health practices, another key hire is a prescriber. Your EHR software can help with this.

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Relias

MARCH 13, 2023

In the healthcare industry, regulations and best practices are always changing. The best way to protect your organization is to monitor your compliance risks proactively. Finally, enlist a communication or UX specialist to evaluate all written materials for clarity and readability.

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Walker Info - Patient Experience

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Always Key Factors Three ingredients that come into play every day will also help determine the success of your Experience Integration: Communication : The best friend a CX team can have is someone in marketing – both internal and external – who is a project champion.

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Relias

JULY 20, 2023

Maternal mortality is closely linked to social and behavioral factors As documented extensively, higher U.S. maternal mortality rates persist, especially in underserved communities. It is important to focus on clinical protocols and reduction in practice variation. What is in the Maternity Care Action Plan?

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Walker Info - Patient Experience

DECEMBER 10, 2022

The process works well for tasks like categorizing or clustering text, summarizing documents, and relational modeling. Media outlets synthesize communication from across the world to generate to-the-minute news reports. Best practice is using only two hierarchical layers to minimize complexity.

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Walker Info - Patient Experience

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Below are a few best practices to consider. As you deploy action plans from your VOC survey, observe your progress and communicate the results. Brevity matters. While different types of surveys naturally vary in length, efforts should be made to keep it as brief as possible. Monitor progress.

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Myndshft Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

It starts with collective healthcare intelligence—a single source of truth for patients’ health and benefits information, providers’ clinical documentation, and payers’ plans and policies. The Myndshft prior authorization platform, for example, is built to meet future standards for interoperability and industry best practices for security.

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Patient Satisfaction Diagnostics Best Practices Documentation 40