COMFORCE Health Care Support Services

RightSourcing® – Vendor Managed Services
Simplifying the Mosaic

Hospitals and commercial businesses have reached out to COMFORCE RightSourcing Services to alleviate the time consuming function of managing their multiple staffing vendors. Because of the highly specialized nature of healthcare staffing needs, our clients supplement their direct workforce with a broad array of skilled temporary professionals. In fact, some facilities utilize as many as 200 vendors. Compounding the need for multiple vendors are recruiting shortages and a low unemployment rate.

COMFORCE simplifies the process by consolidating vendors so that a company has one point of contact and receives a single detailed invoice. Through RightSourcing, bill rates are standardized and usage streamlined resulting in documentable cost savings. A team dedicated exclusively to the facility, assisted by specialized workforce management software, expedites job order fulfillment. This software also tracks usage and generates detailed reports by department. By narrowing the vendor field to only the best and fastest, quality control is guaranteed. RightSourcing is vendor management services at its finest.

Travel Nurses Unlimited
Meeting Shortages Head On

Speed of placement and competency of personnel is critical for quality patient care. COMFORCE meets both of those criteria when placing RNs in all specialties to hospitals, clinics, major medical practices and insurance providers. The shortage of RNs nationally and mandated nurse to patient ratios in many states, makes travel nurse usage a must for most medical facilities. Nurses embrace the opportunity to experience new cities and have exposure to top facilities while having their travel and housing arrangements paid for.

Travel Nurses Unlimited is proud to be recognized by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) and has earned the JCAHO Gold Seal of Approval in the Health Care Staffing Services program. This seal certifies that Travel Nurses Unlimited is highly qualified to service the medical community. COMFORCE adheres to the highest quality standards through thorough reference checking, licensing verification and demanding experience requirements. Ongoing performance evaluations help assure our clients that the highest standards are maintained. RNs and LPNs are also placed at local hospitals using the same selection standards as our travel division.

Health Care Support Services
Completing the Medical Montage

In the new world of work, the health care industry, including clinical, R&D, pharmaceuticals and medical insurance processing, leads all industries in job creation. In this $2.0 trillion industry, representing 16% of the GDP, COMFORCE is positioning itself for growth. Population growth and aging “baby boomers” continue to accelerate demand for a broad scope of clinical, research and development, medical administrative support and information technology related personnel. COMFORCE provides support to health care providers through the entire patient care cycle with the convenience of one-stop-shopping in areas which include:

Allied Health Care Services

Doctors and nurses need a host of trained and certified support staff to assist in diagnosing, evaluating and treating patients. Temporary COMFORCE radiation therapists, radiographers, sonagraphers, polysonographers and many other skilled technicians provide the necessary clinical back up functions to complete the patient care process. Medical providers are secure in knowing that COMFORCE strictly adheres to individual state health departments, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) and (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy requirements protecting patients, providers and clinicians alike.

LabForce® Scientific Services
Assisting in Research and Development

Continual advances in medical treatment and consumer product improvements are not possible without clinical research and trials. LabForce science professionals provide services to a broad range of pharmaceutical, biotechnical, chemical and consumer product companies to support scientific advances and product development.

COMFORCE biologists, biochemists, lab techs, scientists and engineers lend their expertise to ready and test drugs and consumer products for the U. S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval. The use of supplementary professionals is especially cost effective in this arena because client companies need only utilize LabForce professionals until the development to market cycle is complete. Since they are on our payroll, there is no further expense or commitment.

Case Management and Utilization Review Nurses
Clinical Expertise Behind The Front Lines

Medical providers can be inundated with regulatory burdens, insurance documentation, tracking patient care and utilization reviews. It takes a skilled RN clinician to manage cases so that responsible care is provided to patients, cost controls are met and compliances are adhered to. The complexity of the paperwork to track treatment from intake to outtake and on to insurance reimbursement makes COMFORCE case review RNs in high demand.

COMFORCE assigns case managers to hospitals, clinics, HMOs, PPOs and large physician’s practices. These facilities welcome COMFORCE RNs because of the pressure in meeting deadlines due to compliances and guidelines necessary to meet JCAHO accreditation reviews, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) and ever-increasing caseloads. Case management and utilization review assignments are a perfect cross-over career for nurses who want to move away from the clinical environment. They welcome the opportunity to use their professional expertise in a new direction.

Medical Office Support Services
Privacy and Professionalism

Meeting the needs of the medical office requires a diverse group of skilled personnel. From the moment the patient arrives for treatment until their physician dismisses them, appropriate communication, paperwork accuracy and privacy are quality issues. Facilitating the patient care cycle becomes easier for providers with COMFORCE medical office staff.

COMFORCE provides personnel for the front desk of the medical office to back office support services. Our professional receptionists, physician’s assistants, medical secretaries and office managers make the office visit pleasant and productive. Behind the scenes, COMFORCE billers, claims processors, transcriptionists, and data entry operators make sure documentation is accurate, complete and that insurance claims are expedited quickly. Caring patient services requires people who are tuned into patients and sensitive to their privacy and emotional needs. All COMFORCE medical personnel are interviewed with those qualities in mind and perform to our client’s highest standards.

COMFORCE Travel Coding Division
Insuring Fast and Fair Reimbursements

The COMFORCE Travel Coding Division, based in Tampa, Florida, dispatches temporary credentialed health insurance management coders to hospitals across the country. These valuable employees check the accuracy of insurance claim coding so that hospitals can be reimbursed by insurance companies fairly and quickly. Since the only valid training for credentialed medical coders is a multi-year, on-the-job process, the shortage is among the highest of the medical support skills. COMFORCE helps to fill the gap. Medical coders are provided with paid and prearranged travel and housing while on assignment and have the opportunity to experience new facilities and visit new cities.

Cost containment mandates on hospitals and clinics make the accurate and timely coding of insurance claims a critical administrative function. Cash flow crunches can adversely affect standards of patient care, which is unacceptable to institutions and patients alike. In the face of high demand, this division is growing as quickly as recruiting will allow. Our fine reputation among the coding community makes COMFORCE a preferred source for hospital clients and coders alike.

Telecommuting for Medical Coders
Coding Via The Net

Because of the shortage of experienced coders and the advances in technology, we have established an opportunity for coders who are unable to travel to code remotely from their homes. With the strict quality control procedures built into the process, we have made this remote option viable for our hospital clients giving them the confidence to call COMFORCE.

Whether traveling to the client’s site or telecommuting, COMFORCE coders perform medical records coding and abstracting for inpatient, ambulatory surgery, emergency room, evaluation and management and ancillary services with speed and accuracy. As a national electronic medical records system becomes a reality, we expect that the demand for our coders will increase even further in the future.