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Lance Luttrell 3/30/22 Lance Luttrell 3/30/22

Nominal Fees, Waivers, and Additional Billing Options

Let’s remove the barriers to understanding discounts for patients.

Lance Luttrell 2/25/22 Lance Luttrell 2/25/22

The Naming Convention: Consideration, not Compliance

During kick-off calls for VOSVs, Health Centers are being handed documents with extensive Naming Conventions. What does this mean? How do I handle them having different numbers?

Kyle Vath 8/10/21 Kyle Vath 8/10/21

Newly-Released Form 5B Tools (From HRSA)

HRSA released two new tools to help health centers improve their Form 5B accuracy.

Kyle Vath 8/3/21 Kyle Vath 8/3/21

Volunteers and FTCA

Health centers often wonder how utilizing volunteer health professionals impacts their FTCA deeming.

Kyle Vath 7/23/21 Kyle Vath 7/23/21

FTCA Required Trainings

FTCA requires community health centers to train their Board and staff in certain key areas.

Kyle Vath 6/29/21 Kyle Vath 6/29/21

Credentialing & Privileging: How do I organize my files?

After reviewing hundreds of credentialing and privileging files, we have a few recommendations for how to keep them up-to-date, compliant, and organized.

Kyle Vath 6/22/21 Kyle Vath 6/22/21

Credentialing & Privileging: COVID-19 Vaccine Requirement?

When consulting with health centers about their HRSA-compliant credentialing and privileging policies (HRSA Site Visit Protocol, Chapter 5: Clinical Staffing), I have frequently been asked the question over the past six months: “Can we require our staff to receive the COVID-19 vaccine?”

Kyle Vath 5/28/21 Kyle Vath 5/28/21

SVP Update: Form 5A Contracts & Agreements

HRSA has recently updated the Site Visit Protocol. Specifically, areas addressing contracts and agreements now have clarifying language added.

Kyle Vath 5/11/21 Kyle Vath 5/11/21

Verifying Cognitive Fitness

HRSA updated the Health Center Program Site Visit Protocol in May of 2021 (Effective May 27, 2021) and added an additional question regarding fitness for duty verification. The health center must now be able to explain, “how the health center has verified fitness for duty to ensure all clinical staff have the physical and cognitive ability to safely perform their duties”.