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Whatever the reason, if you’re feeling overloaded, overbooked, and overwhelmed, it might help to know that there are ways of saying “no” without saying the word, “no.”
Communication is a life-long journey, so don’t stop with contrasting. Every conversation is an opportunity to develop and learn how you can continue to improve.
There is now a sharp focus on everything being measurable and performance goals must be measurable. This metric focus has bled into institutional strategies with many organizations tying their strategic goals to data outcomes.
The people who wrote the HIPAA laws did not and could not have known how quickly technology would develop so that the patient would not be able to maintain the protections HIPAA intended.
Ensuring the correct code assignment for diagnostic gastrointestinal codes is more straightforward in 2020 as long as the extent of the exam and the use of single or double contrast is properly documented in the radiology report. The current trend of revising codes to ensure clarity and consistency is welcome indeed.
The role of the patient in health care is changing. What was once considered a unidirectional experience (the doctor runs the show) has become a consumer-driven model.
