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OSHA's Guide to Restroom Access for Transgender Workers

Recently, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published a Guide to Restroom Access for Transgender Workers. OSHA's Sanitation standard requires that all employers under its jurisdiction provide...

The CMS announces concessions in the transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10

On July 7th, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that it is making several critical changes to the transition period to ICD-10. They published a PDF that covers the concessions and how they...

UCLA and CVS two of the latest victims of cyber-attacks

The medical industry is historically one sector of industry that has benefited most from the introduction of technology. But what is the downside what about cyber-attacks? No matter what kind of attack, it is...

Lessons Learned Article Series " Breaches Risks Outages Part 2

All it takes is typing one additional letter or one additional number to send an email to the wrong recipient. For example, Johh.doe@emailprovider.com may be a different person than...

Proposed Update to Physician Fee Schedule

Recently, CMS released "the first proposed update to the physician payment schedule since the repeal of the Sustainable Growth Rate." This proposed update is largely focused on person-centered care, and continued...

Final rules on certain recommended preventative services without cost sharing

Friday, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) announced final rules that make sure women have access to recommended preventative services, including contraceptive services, at no additional cost as...

Lessons Learned Article Series: Electronic Communications " Part 1

Throwback trends are popular, especially on social media sites. By now most of us are familiar with Throwback Thursday trends and many of us have experience using the hashtag (#) TBT. In recognizing this popular...

Latest ICD-10 Rumblings

With the ICD-10 implementation less than 100 days away and some rumblings comingfrom Capitol Hill, CMS and the four largest medical societies, we will be closely analyzing announcements and updates as we learn of...

Mind your P's and Q's and follow P and P's

There are several different theories as to the origin of the phrase Mind Your P's And Q's. One explanation suggests that this phrase would be used by parents to educate their children to not forget to use those...

Monthly Refresher Training Webinar Recordings

Our Monthly Refresher Training Webinars have focused on a variety of topics including: a general overview of managing your Healthcare Compliance Pros program, OSHA and HIPAA Assessments, managing Training Reminders,...