Why you need this tool: Credentials serve as notification that you have acquired a certain level of knowledge and professional status. As such, they enhance your standing at your current job and your marketability should you seek a new position. How this tool helps you: You may already be eligible, or almost eligible, for billing and coding certifications. How to use this … [Read more...] about Model Tool: Certification table – billing and coding
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Model Tool: Certification table – health information management
Why you need this tool: Credentials serve as notification that you have acquired a certain level of knowledge and professional status. As such, they enhance your standing at your current job and your marketability should you seek a new position. How this tool helps you: You may already be eligible, or almost eligible, for health information management certifications. How to … [Read more...] about Model Tool: Certification table – health information management
Model Tool: Certification table – compliance
Why you need this tool: Credentials serve as notification that you have acquired a certain level of knowledge and professional status. As such, they enhance your standing at your current job and your marketability should you seek a new position. How this tool helps you: You may already be eligible, or almost eligible, for compliance certifications. How to use this tool: This … [Read more...] about Model Tool: Certification table – compliance
Model Guide: Behavioral interview questions
Why you need this guide: When interviewing job candidates, it’s essential to ascertain whether they have the knowledge and skills required for the position. How this guide helps you: This guide provides open-ended questions to ask candidates–allowing for answers that will provide the insight you seek. How to use this guide: Organized alphabetically by topic area, this … [Read more...] about Model Guide: Behavioral interview questions
Model Tool: 8 ways employee social networking can hurt your practice
Why you need this checklist: Social networking by employees can endanger your practice with liability issues and misinformation. How this checklist helps you: This list covers eight areas of danger created by employee social networking. How to use this checklist: Become aware of each of these eight danger areas so you can prevent liability issues and the spread of … [Read more...] about Model Tool: 8 ways employee social networking can hurt your practice
Employer Checklist: Affordable Care Act
Why you need this checklist: The numerous provisions and requirements of the ACA can be overwhelming for employers. How this checklist helps you: This checklist will help you understand and manage employee benefits requirements. How to use this checklist: Refer to this checklist as needed to comply with ACA employee benefits requirements. … [Read more...] about Employer Checklist: Affordable Care Act
Model Tool: Meaningful Use resources
Why you need this list: Getting certified electronic records technology can help your practice retain profits. How this list helps you: Resources and information online can help you get certified electronic health records technology and achieve meaningful use. How to use this list: Follow the links to these additional online resources. … [Read more...] about Model Tool: Meaningful Use resources
Model Tool: Links for more on Office of the Investigator General Workplan
Why you need this list of links: The OIG, Office of Inspector General, oversees Medicare and Medicaid enforcement and highlights areas of focus in its enforcement efforts in a Workplan. The 2014 Workplan was released at the end of January and contains some items of note for medical practices. How this list of links helps you: Some items are new and others have been on the OIG … [Read more...] about Model Tool: Links for more on Office of the Investigator General Workplan
Resource List: Find the help and information you need free on government websites
Why you need this resource list: Employers have obligations to their employees under the Affordable Care Act. How this resource list helps you: This list will help you find sources of information about your obligations to employees under the Affordable Care Act. How to use this resource list: Go to any of the links listed for further information about the Affordable Care Act. … [Read more...] about Resource List: Find the help and information you need free on government websites
Model Tool: ICD-10 preparedness checklist
Why you need this checklist: You need to be ready for the changeover to ICD-10 by October 2015. How this checklist helps you: This checklist tells you what you should have accomplished by now. How to use this checklist: Review the checklist and make sure you have completed each item so you are ready to move forward with necessary tasks. … [Read more...] about Model Tool: ICD-10 preparedness checklist