Anesthesia Coding Alert

Practice Management:

Stay Cognizant of Employees’ Privacy Rights When Testing for COVID-19

Guidelines keep changing, so keep up to date to stay compliant. If your practice has asked employees to have mandatory COVID-19 tests, tread carefully in terms of protecting employee rights during the process. Employee health privacy rights are not diminished by the public health emergency (PHE), and even though employers need to intrude somewhat on employees’ privacy, with body temperature [...]
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