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Patient recordings

5 Ways to Manage Risk When Patients Want to Record Visits

Patient recordings may happen at your practice for a variety of reasons. For instance, patients may be nervous they won’t remember care instructions, or they want to ensure their family members can hear all the details of a new diagnosis straight from the doctor’s mouth. Unfortunately, patient recordings can put your practice at compliance or […]
Published Date: October 22, 2024
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chatgpt

5 Considerations Before Using ChatGPT at Your Practice

Artificial intelligence is shifting into every aspect of our lives, and that probably includes your medical practice. Whether you’re using AI to transcribe dictation or to help you clean up grammar on correspondence, it can be a big help in a busy office. One AI-focused area that some practices haven’t yet warmed up to involves […]
Published Date: October 14, 2024
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Children’s medical records

How to Comply With Requests for Children’s Medical Records

If you get a request for medical records, it’s intimidating enough to evaluate whether you can release those documents compliantly — so if the request is for children’s medical records, it adds another layer of complexity to the situation. Discover how you should respond when someone sends you a request to release children’s medical records. […]
Published Date: September 30, 2024
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Emotional support animals

7 Tips for Creating Your Emotional Support Animal Policy

You’re likely familiar with the federal regulations about service animals, which are animals (typically dogs) trained to perform tasks to benefit a person with a disability. Emotional support animals, however, are not covered under the Americans With Disabilities Act, and aren’t specially trained to assist disabled people. In addition, they can be any type or […]
Published Date: June 25, 2024
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Non-compete

How the Non-Compete Agreement Ban May Affect Healthcare

Non-compete clauses will soon be banned in most employment contracts, thanks to a new rule that the Federal Trade Commission issued on April 23. Although the final rule affects almost every employer in the country, there are some exceptions, which you must know to stay compliant. Check out a few key facts about how the […]
Published Date: April 30, 2024
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Overtime rule

3 Facts Help Medical Practices Prep for the New Overtime Rule

A new employment overtime rule will require you to modify how you pay some of your full-time salaried employees, or you could end up facing expensive and time-consuming investigations into your labor compliance. To ensure your practice is ready for compliance with the upcoming overtime rule, check out three facts about the law. 1. The […]
Published Date: April 22, 2024
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Sunshine act

Are You Subject to Sunshine Act Reporting Rules? 4 Ways to Tell

Under the Sunshine Act, vendors must post the names of every provider they have a financial relationship with — and this means even accepting lunch from a drug rep will land your name on the Open Payments list. If you find out your name is listed inaccurately, you can dispute it. The problem is that […]
Published Date: April 16, 2024
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Service animals

Untangling the Rules Around Service Animals at Your Practice

When patients or employees want to bring service animals or emotional support animals into your practice, you must tread very carefully. If you make a misstep, you could face lawsuits, regulatory agency fines and reputational damage if you violate the Americans With Disabilities Act. On the other hand, if your emotional support animal policy is […]
Published Date: November 7, 2023
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Subpoena for medical records

4 Questions to Ask if You Get a Subpoena for Medical Records

If your practice receives a subpoena for medical records, it’s important to stay calm. Although you have to toe the line between complying with the subpoena and protecting patient privacy, there are important questions you must answer before sending the records. Check out the four questions you should always ask when you get a subpoena […]
Published Date: October 24, 2023
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stark law

Discover How the PHE’s End Will Impact the Stark Law

The end of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) is now behind us, and the discontinuation of certain PHE policies spans far beyond COVID-19 tests and vaccinations. In fact, the PHE’s end also has compliance considerations that every practice must know. Among these are vast changes to the Stark law and the ending of blanket […]
Published Date: May 17, 2023
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