Registry Partners’ Vice President of Accreditation Services, Crystal McDaniel, CTR and Director of Business Development Linda Reimers- BS, RHIA, CTR attended the Annual Commission on Cancer Training for Surveyors and Consultants on November 12th and 13th. Thankfully it didn’t snow this year but the winds were howling once again! The opportunity to network and learn from each other is always a worthwhile opportunity. Presentations were made…
Sneak Peek: Inside the Registry Partners QC Newsletter
Every quarter, Registry Partners sends out a QC newsletter our Oncology Services Division. Inside the newsletter, our Vice President of Quality, Education and Training and one of our talented Quality Control Managers pull together tools to assist and inform our team. Every issue has information on changes and updates to rules and descriptions, resources for coding and abstracting, and sample questions that have come up over the…
Clinical Trial Enrollment for CoC-accredited Cancer Programs
Standard 1.9 can be a challenge for CoC-accredited Cancer Programs of all shapes and sizes. The overall goal is to provide information about the availability of cancer-related clinical trials and offer patients the opportunity to participate. The Commission on Cancer has a designated required percentage each calendar year based on the category of your program. They also have a percentage the program must achieve each year…
Cancer Registry Halloween Horror Stories!
Computer Crash, it became a graveyard smash Ultimate GPS (Ghost Providing Service) failure on the way to a new client Registrar says she was abstracting cases and they all did a disappearing act You take a tumble on your way to work in the pouring rain and enter Cancer Committee looking like the Bride of Frankenstein Traveling out-of-town for…