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HIPAA: What You Can and Can’t Disclose

Nurse Practitioners in Business

Without proper verification of the recipient. Always confirm the identity and proper authority of the person requesting the information. Mental Health And Communicable Disease Information When it comes to highly sensitive information like mental health and communicable diseases, HIPAA imposes stricter rules.

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The Changing Face of Healthcare Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic

Hospital Recruiting | Nursing

The emergency decision by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on March 17, 2020 (and retroactively in effect beginning March 6, 2020) to pay for telehealth visits outside of rural areas has eased physician concern. CPT codes for billing purposes are available. Luckily, there are several companies, such as Teladoc, Doxy.me

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How to Improve Patient Retention for Physician Practices

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Modernizing physician practices isnt cheap, however, and often entails substantial technology costs. Implementing and maintaining EHR systems, practice management software, and other innovative tools is necessary for efficient operations, satisfying increasingly convenience-centric patients, and, in some cases, regulatory compliance.