How to Hire Acupuncturists into Your Healthcare System: Focus on Revenue Capture and Clinician Retention
Megan Gale
topics: live virtual events, event recordings, employment practices, minimum standards for job announcements and position descriptions, resources for program leads/managers/directors, credentialing standards for acupuncturists in healthcare system-based practice, revenue capture and coding to benefit your program and healthcare system, and current known best practices in clinician retention for new employees and current employees.
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title slide for the HHP Employment Practices Workgroup public presentation, “How to Hire and Credential LAcs in Your Healthcare System: Revenue Capture and Clinician Retention.” Live event was Saturday, June 25th, 2022.
On Saturday, June 25th, 2022, I hosted a live, virtual presentation,
“How to Hire and Credential LAcs in Your Healthcare System: Focus on Revenue Capture and Clinician Retention,”
for the Hospital Handbook Project (HHP), a nonprofit community resource.
This was the first public presentation from the HHP’s Employment Practices Workgroup.
The event materials (pdf of slides and recordings of the presentation and the Q&A session) are now available in our Issues in Hospital-based Practice webinar series online resource.
Topics covered in this presentation
The presentation with slides was about 45 minutes. The Q&A session was about 40 minutes. Both recordings are available under the “2022” section of the Issues in Hospital-based Practice online resource.
Introduction:
What is the Hospital Handbook Project (HHP) for Acupuncturists and Their Hospital Sponsors?
What is the HHP’s Employment Practices Workgroup?
What is the Data Survey Project?
Presentation: “How to Hire and Credential LAcs in Your Healthcare System: Focus on Revenue Capture and Clinician Retention”
Minimum education and training requirements for hiring LAcs to work in healthcare system-based practice in the U.S. Current national standards and regional exceptions.
Revenue capture for your LAcs working in outpatient and inpatient settings. A quick review of documentation and coding best practices. Review of an outpatient pain management example. Categories of codes: E/M, CPT, service location, telehealth or virtual care, and more.
Clinician retention, current best practices with examples.
Question & Answer session, about 40 minutes
Topics covered in the Q&A session included
Documentation and coding
When setting up a program, “what about treating staff?” For example, stress relief and employee wellness programs, etc. Program funding and documentation. Related research publications.
Clinician retention practices
Grand Rounds access and participation
Advice on shadowing your clinical team before you start working with patients. For new hires who are in “the waiting place” with credentialing and working on required institutional training as part of their onboarding process.
The HHP’s Issues in Hospital-based Practice Webinar Series online resource has been ongoing for several years. Modules are organized by year. The recordings for this event will be in module year 2022, under the month of the event (June).
For a quick review of this HHP-hosted event, I recommend watching this short video from our YouTube channel.
Short video promoting the HHP-hosted event, “How to Hire and Credential an Acupuncturist in Your Healthcare System.”
Some images from this June 25th, 2022, live virtual event.
The Hospital Handbook Project for Acupuncturists and Their Hospital Sponsors is a program of the Society of Hospital & Healthcare System-based Acupuncturists, a nonprofit organization based in the U.S.A.
