493 From Watchdog to LNC – Mary Ann Seibold

In 2019, thirty percent of the money spent on healthcare in the U.S. was wasted through inappropriate care levels, unnecessary procedures, abuse, fraud, and other deviations from established standards of care. Mary Ann Seibold, who worked four years reviewing care given to Medicare Advantage patients explains how she went from Medicare watchdog to LNC and also the vital watchdog nature that utilization management plays in attempting to keep down the cost of wasteful medical activity.

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492 How a Risk Manager Saves a Life – Alfreda Whitley

Every legal nurse consultant needs to understand risk management and also the duties of a risk manager and quality assurance as practiced in a clinical setting. It’s often where one finds patients whose needs have slipped through the cracks created by insufficiently considered procedures, new medical practitioners, and even the routine event of a shift change

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487 Sexual Assault Cases And The LNC – Teresa Devitt Lynch

In 2019, over 400,000 adult women reported being sexually assaulted. Although this figure is believed to represent only one third of actual rapes, and though it doesn’t include children under the age of 12, it is a huge number.
LNCs can play vital roles in those cases that are litigated. If you are drawn to this very important area of work, you need to understand the medical processes of information gathering involved in sexual assault cases.

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