Our Medical Division is aware that compliance is an evolving field, and that each quarter - indeed sometimes each month - brings new, complex rules that require immediate implementation. Quite often hospitals, clinics, long term care facilities - healthcare providers - are "blind-sided" by these evolving laws and protocols, because they haven't had an adequate warning and have not, certainly, had the time to implement complex and possibly expensive compliance programs in response.

Our Quarterly Compliance Supplements are designed to help healthcare professionals avoid the potentially dangerous situations that rapidly changing legislation can indicate. They cover the key areas of compliance for different organizations and insure you're dealing with the most up-to-date information that is presented in the simplest, most user-friendly fashion possible. Keep ahead of the law and protect your organization! Compliance Inserts

Compliance Inserts

Standard Compliance Implementation Forms

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This insert is comprised of forms, memorandums and checklists which are part of any compliance program that a provider might implement. It covers how employment applicants are screened, how to deal with employees, how to monitor a compliance program, a basic HIPAA checklist, and standard forms which exist between providers and suppliers to ensure honest and transparent relations.

HIPAA Administrative Simplification Provisions

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This "HIPAA insert" provides a cursory overview of HIPAA and fleshes out what HIPAA is designed to do: SIMPLIFY the way in which healthcare providers work and exchange information, amongst themselves, between providers and the US government and between providers and private insurance companies. It covers Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), various HIPAA compliance deadlines, an overview of recent changes (in order to simplify) in billing and coding procedures and claims submission as well as forms or checklists that providers can use to measure the extent to which they adhere to HIPAA.

Clinical Laboratory
Improvement Amendments

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The CLIA insert details all the rules, regulations and protocols governing laboratories. These range from who gets hired, hygiene standards, handling of dangerous pathogens or medical waste, reporting methods to providers, insurers or government, ensuring the privacy of the individuals being tested and implementing a comprehensive compliance regime. This insert also comes complete with forms, notices and checklists that labs can use to ensure that compliance is properly implemented within any organization.

Essential Elements for the Dental Industry

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The "Dental insert" demonstrates that dentist offices, however large or small, are subject to the same type of regulation as other providers, only that their compliance issues are specific to the dental profession. It covers HIPAA compliance for dentists, the unique set of billing and coding procedures that must be used by dental offices and specific health issues such as sterilization of equipment, hygiene, and protocols related to pathogens among other things. It too comes complete with forms/checklists etc that can be used by dental offices to make sure they are following the rules.

OSHA for Nursing
&Convalescent Homes

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The following Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)-based guidelines offer recommendations on preventing or reducing the severity of musculo-skeletal injuries among employees in nursing home facilities. The recommendations are based on a comprehensive review of existing practices in nursing home facilities, with the support and participation of state OSHA programs; trade and professional associations; labor organizations; the medical community; private firms; and other interested parties. These guidelines are addressed to nursing homes, but OSHA also recommends that employers and employees in assisted living centers, homes for the disabled, homes for the aged, hospitals, and in other similar working environments, read through and implement these guidelines as well.

HIM: Health
Information Management
Forms,
&Checklists

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The following Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)-based guidelines offer recommendations on preventing or reducing the severity of musculo-skeletal injuries among employees in nursing home facilities. The recommendations are based on a comprehensive review of existing practices in nursing home facilities, with the support and participation of state OSHA programs; trade and professional associations; labor organizations; the medical community; private firms; and other interested parties. These guidelines are addressed to nursing homes, but OSHA also recommends that employers and employees in assisted living centers, homes for the disabled, homes for the aged, hospitals, and in other similar working environments, read through and implement these guidelines as well.

HIPAA Security,
Risk Assessment
&Contingency Planning

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Every healthcare provider and facility is now faced with the daunting task of not only ensuring that their organization becomes fully compliant, but is also now responsible for maintaining and ensuring long-term, continued compliance. This insert - specially designed to demonstrate and outline a proper contingency plan for healthcare providers and facilities of all sizes and functions - will assist any office, however large or small, in understanding the steps that need to be taken to protect themselves in the event of an unforeseen disruption/disaster or emergency.