Model Conflict of Interest Policy for Employees Romantically Involved with Co-Workers
Here’s a template for a conflict of interest policy that you can adapt for your lab based on its specific situation and HR policies.
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Here’s a template for a conflict of interest policy that you can adapt for your lab based on its specific situation and HR policies.
Part of the duty to protect workers is to ensure those at risk receive proper training on what to do if an active shooter incident occurs.
This script helps prepare frontline staff to answer questions that patients seeking access to their PHI are likely to ask.
If the signatures of ordering physicians or non-physician practitioners aren’t legible or done correctly, Medicare may not pay for lab tests.
To guard against reimbursement denials due to improper signatures, labs can give MACs an attestation statement from the physician or NPP.
Although courts have yet to weigh in on the issue, guidelines from the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and other regulatory agencies indicate that employers may implement vaccine passports if they perform a workplace assessment and determine that...
In addition to potentially fatal misdiagnoses and erroneous treatment decisions, mistakes during the specimen collection and testing process can expose your lab to risk of liability under state medical malpractice laws. But what if the victim isn’t a patient but an...