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The Need To Provide Medicare Training Courses To Employees

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  It has been estimated in 2018 that annual Medicare costs exceeded   $3.35 trillion and losses due to fraud and abuse reached $300 Billion. Healthcare fraud is a costly affair. Every year billions of dollars are wasted due to healthcare fraud. Medicare training programs have been initiated to make aware people of all the practices of fraud and abuse. It does not make any difference whether a person has employer-sponsored health insurance or his own health insurance policy, healthcare fraud and abuse culminates in higher premiums and out-of-pocket expenses for customers, along with reduced benefits and coverage. From the perspective of employers, healthcare fraud and abuse escalate the cost of providing insurance benefits to employees and the overall cost of running the business. With medicare training courses, employees can learn to recognize the most recurrent forms of abuse and fraud including physician self-referrals (stark law), kickbacks, and false claims. It is extre...

5 Practical Tips to Make Your OSHA Training More Engaging

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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has strict requirements in place for not only hospitals and large medical complexes, but also smaller healthcare and dentistry clinics.   If you own or operate a healthcare practice, you're probably already aware of these OSHA regulations and how important it is to have them in place. If you don't follow their rules, you could be punished for each item on their checklist that isn't present. This can soon build up to a substantial sum of money. The issue isn't with the standards themselves; rather, it's with the challenges of training people to remain compliant. Employees find OSHA training to be uninteresting, which leads to issues with comprehension and retention of information. So, in order to minimize non-compliance and fines, how do you implement this training in a way that is attractive and engaging for employees? 1. Before you begin training, conduct a needs assessment. Many of your experienced health...