A young woman died from fatally low oxygen levels after being prescribed a narcotic pain relief patch after treatment for pancreatitis.
Though useful, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) is warning that copy and paste can lead to fraudulent billing, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is vowing to pursue any providers who abuse the feature.
Hospitals in two states recently were in the difficult position of having to disagree with a family about terminating life support for patients declared dead.
Administrative databases may not give an accurate representation of hospital-acquired pressure ulcer rates and may be inappropriate for use to compare hospitals and determine financial penalties.
A fixed dose of oral apixaban alone was noninferior to conventional therapy for the treatment of acute venous thromboembolism and was associated with significantly less bleeding.
