The switch to ICD-10 was expected to make upcoding in medical billing harder. First, some background: The World Health Organization is the public health arm of the United Nations. Since 1948, WHO has been responsible for updating the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), a worldwide system for collecting, processing, classifying and processing statistics about diseases. The most recent version of the ICD is ICD-10, or tenth edition, which WHO published in 1999. How ICD Codes Are Used … [Read more...]
California Commission Pay Laws: Employers Cannot Avoid Overtime by Shifting Commission Timing
California commission pay laws are part of a broad set of laws, rules and regulations the state uses to protect employee working conditions. California employers must pay their employees a minimum hourly wage and one-and-a-half times the minimum wage for overtime work of more than 8 hours in a day or more than 40 hours in a workweek. The Commissioned-Employee Exception to Overtime Certain exceptions apply to California’s overtime pay rules, however. One important exception is for employees who … [Read more...]
Whistleblower Confidentiality Agreements: Feds Take Strong Action to Protect Employees
Many companies require their employees to sign confidentiality agreements that prohibit the employees from disclosing non-public information about the company to outsiders. In general, these confidentiality agreements aim to protect a company’s proprietary information that gives it an advantage over its competitors; things like trade secrets, inventions, customer lists and strategic plans. Recently, however, a growing number of companies have written whistleblower confidentiality agreements … [Read more...]
Class Action Waiver Struck Down: Court Rejects Arbitration Ban on Employee Class Actions
Arbitration provisions are everywhere. If you own a cell phone, use a credit card, or subscribe to cable or satellite TV, odds are very high that your contract with those companies contains an arbitration clause. Your employment agreement may very well have an arbitration clause too. Your car loan? The vacation you just booked with an online travel site? All are likely to have an arbitration clause buried somewhere in the fine print. According to a three-part series published in The New York … [Read more...]
California Paid Sick Leave Law: What Most Employees Are Entitled To
Under California’s paid sick leave law, with some limited exceptions, California employees are now entitled to accrue and take paid sick leave. California is the second state in the nation to mandate paid sick leave for its employees; Connecticut was the first. But unlike in Connecticut, California’s new paid sick leave law applies to employers of every size. Here’s how California’s new paid sick leave law works: To accrue paid sick leave with a particular employer, an employee must work for … [Read more...]
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