Almost every day in the news you hear about another illness or death related to e-cigarette use. The number of people impacted by e-cigarettes is getting to epidemic proportions. Fight Flavored e-Cigs is a relatively new website that was launched in 2019 to raise awareness about the e-cigarette epidemic. Their website shares the staggering statistics below, highlighting just how unsafe and harmful e-cigarettes are. 1 in…
This month’s registry spotlight is on the Total Hip and Knee Replacement registry through The Joint Commission. Registry Partners’ Surgical Services team can assist facilities and institutions nationwide with their THKR data collection efforts. We serve as a complete outsource solution or can augment the facility’s current data collection team to ensure high quality, timely, and accurate data collection and submission. Read on to learn more…
The Registry Partners CTR Coding Break for February 2020 discusses The Brief, October 24, 2019 update on additional information for coding skin/melanoma surgery. The Technical Advisory Group made a consensus decision to use the pathology report as the first priority for assigning melanoma codes. If margin information is not available on the pathology report, the operative report may be used when margins are specified. Subsequently,…
In 2019 we launched our first company-wide fitness program “Commit to be Fit”. Well, the journey has come to an end; and what a journey it has been. Together we have walked over 104 million steps, which is more than 43 thousand miles. Over the past year, we participated in numerous challenges around the number of steps and minutes of activity. In addition, there were different…
