Health care providers need to create an ICD-10 training plan now that prepares all staff members — not just the medical coders.

Transitioning successfully to the new ICD-10-CM code set will be particularly important for primary care physicians. Here are some diagnoses to which primary care providers should pay close attention.

A law in California — the Healthy Workplace Healthy Family Act of 2014 (AB 1522) — will mandate that employers provide sick leave to employees who have worked on or after January 1, 2015.

While many think of a doctor's office as a place of healing and not a place of business, it is still subject to the same posting requirements as every other California workplace.

Medical offices either considering or currently using a cloud-based service for data storage, retrieval, and patient access have specific fortifications that need to be addressed with a Business Associates Agreement (BAA).