F.J. Thomas has worked in healthcare business for more than fifteen years in Tennessee. Her experience as a contract appeals analyst has given her an intimate grasp of the inner workings of both the provider and insurance world. Knowing first hand that the industry is constantly changing, she strives to find resources and information you can use.

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Telehealth Gets A Boost From Rural Telehealth Initiative

• 09/03/20

Washington, DC (WorkersCompensation.com) – Telehealth, especially in rural areas, has gotten another boost this week from the Federal Trade Commission (FCC). In an FCC press release on September 1st, ...
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CDC Study Shows Public Health Workers Have The Highest Asthma Rates

• 09/01/20

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – In the U.S., 50 percent of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) cases, and 44 percent of asthma cases are the result of workplace exposures, according ...
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Texas Pain Management Physicians Pay Out $450,000 In Billing Fraud Allegations

• 08/28/20

Houston, TX (WorkersCompensation.com) – Medical coding guidelines and rules change on a continual basis, requiring providers and billing staff to jump through numerous hoops in order to know the rules ...
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Report Shows Disc Arthroplasty Top Billed Code in An ASC

• 08/24/20

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – For many years only a certain number of surgical procedures were approved for an Ambulatory surgery center (ASC) setting, due to outcomes and safety concerns. ...
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Recent Study Suggests Capitated Contracts Result In Better Outcomes

• 08/21/20

Minnetonka, MN (WorkersCompensation.com) – Over the last several decades, healthcare has gone through all kinds of payment models only to circle back around sometimes to the same ideas. A new study ...
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Healthcare Is Expanding Even In The Face Of Closure

• 08/20/20

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – No doubt, the last year has been tough on healthcare with a slew of hospital closures and bankruptcies even prior to COVID-19. There are a myriad of reasons ...
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Nursing Home Study Suggests Worker Confinement Greatly Prevents COVID-19 Deaths

• 08/18/20

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – A new COVID-19 study from France published in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) this month has the potential to present a new workplace ...
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Pharmacy Chains Face Lawsuits For Refusing to Fill Opioid Prescriptions

• 08/14/20

Providence, RI (WorkersCompensation.com) – The opioid epidemic has long been center stage of the focus in healthcare, resulting in changed legislation which opened the door for a multitude of lawsuits ...
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East Kentucky Physician Uses Facebook To Sell Opioids

• 08/12/20

Pikeville, KY (WorkersCompensation.com) – A Kentucky pain management physician and his wife have pleaded guilty to unlawfully distributing controlled substances. Dr. Scotty Akers, and his wife and ...
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