Independent contractor or employee?

摘要

WE ALL KNOW the state of the economy. Cutting costs has been a mantra in healthcare for years, but recent pressures have been more demanding than ever.In HIM, the downward pressures in cost conflict with the upward forces in workload. Additional tasks related to recovery audits, ICD-10, quality data reporting, and clinical documentation improvement are being assigned to HIM departments every day. Department directors and outsourced service companies alike are asked do more with less. One potential area for cost savings lies in "how" human resources are categorized: independent contractors or employees.