Does Your Medical Practice Need a Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) Certificate of Waiver?

Does your staff perform any in-office laboratory tests, such as patient urine dip-sticks or Glucose Tolerance Tests?

Do You Have a Consistent Prescription Process?

A study by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality indicated that 60 percent of reported errors in the office setting associated with harm involved prescription errors. The following are recommendations to improve the medication prescription process in the office setting.

What to Do About Stolen or Lost Records

What should you do when a laptop computer with patient information or a patient medical record is stolen from your office or your provider's car?

Physician Assistants Required to Post Notice to Consumers

Effective August 11, 2011, Physician Assistants (PA) are required to post a Notification to Consumers. The notification informs patients that the PA is licensed and regulated by the California Physician Assistant Committee.

When the Coroner Calls

Callers to CAP's Hotline have asked the following questions related to interactions with the coroner and we thought all of our readers would appreciate the answers