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How does an insurance company, who often needs to focus their resources exclusively on the business of claims review, take advantage of outsourced record retrieval?
While this practice is widely known by law firms, there is an even bigger advantage for insurance companies and industry professionals.

Workflow - A lesson OF the NYSE vs. the NASDAQ
OUCH! For the first two weeks of 2016, investors in the stock market have suffered through a sudden and painful decline. Some call it historical in both its speed and voracity. The images most of us have of traders in lab-coat looking jackets with large ID letters on the front are likely from the New York Stock Exchange or NYSE. Those traders handle buys and sells (workflow) in an auction-like environment, usually using hand signals, or shouting at the specialist designed to represent the stock being traded.

This 2016 To-Do List is a follow up of to our last blog on ensuring the adequate tracking of HIPAA compliance forms to avoid processing delays. You can read it here.
Before work gets hectic, consider the following 5 to-dos for your 2016 New Year list:

Make sure that your clients understand exactly what is involved and what actions you are taking on their behalf to collect and retrieve their medical records.

By now every healthcare provider, attorney involved in patient litigation, or insurance claims processor needing medical records knows the importance of a signed HIPAA Authorization form. Usually these forms are signed during the on-boarding process of the client by the attorney or the insurer’s agent.

Summary: RRS creates an offer - no spam, just our way of helping others.
Sometimes you read what writers call blogs but they are really just thinly veiled ads. I even got plain old SPAM cleverly concealed as a blog. I like to think that our blog posts are informative and educational.

Summary: Partnering. Everyone needs a resource they can depend on whether they collaborate once a day or once a year. This post explains how partners can be leveraged to assist when you need them most.
There was a time in America long ago, that craftsman made fine furniture, created unique hand-blown glass figurines and sold those items they made and many other products out of their own storefront.

Time. There is never enough of it. Whether it’s a 12 hour workday, or a relaxing weekend at the beach with family, time gets away from us. And while that is something everyone feels, when you have a law practice, wasted time means money lost.

This is not purely a capitalist perspective.

While it’s hard to believe, 2015 is almost in the rear view mirror. As the end of the 4rd quarter quickly approaches, this is a perfect time to think about a topic that is often overlooked – Your Medical Record Retrieval process.

So here are 10 great record retrieval ideas as we move into the end of the year that you can use to improve client satisfaction and lower costs:

Status – Regardless of when the matter began that caused you to request records, now is the time to check on its status and decide what to do about those that are not up to date.

Have you ever noticed that when a new technology or solution becomes popular, every loosely-related vendor suddenly has a new "specialist" page on their website catering to that client/industry?

For example, a quick search on cloud solution specialists will provide you with literally hundreds of pages of companies that claim to be specialists in this highly-technical and unique alternative to on-site servers.

Most lay people have heard of Class Action lawsuits, and some have heard of Mass Tort litigation. While both are designed to reduce the number of court cases in the system, Mass Tort litigation lawsuits are different from Class Action law suits. Mass tort claims must be handled differently, covering a much broader range of claim types.