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In what the principals claim is a health care industry first, HealthGrades Inc. and J.D. Power and Associates have formed a strategic alliance to recognize hospitals for excellence in both service and clinical outcomes.
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The Leapfrog Group, the Washington, DC-based organization that seeks to foster improved patient safety, soon will complete a tool to help realign incentives for health care facilities that invest in meeting Leapfrog recommendations.
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AHA toolkit fosters evidence-based medicine; CDC stresses smallpox vaccination site care; St. Louis hospitals sign preparedness agreement; HHS seeks safer smallpox vaccines
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One year after being found guilty of conspiring to defraud through a system of kickbacks for patient referrals and the filing of false claims that resulted in overpayments of more than $1 million from Medicare and Medicaid, six co-defendants were sentenced to a combination of almost seven years in federal prison and more than $526,000 in restitution payments.
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Although Valley Health System in Winchester, VA, originally set up the community nurse case management program as a separate department that operated independently of home health, people soon realized that the two areas needed to coordinate their activities, says Lisa M. Zerull, RN, MS, program director of the community nurse case management program.
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Forget the lottery as your way to riches. According to Judge Judy, The Practice, and countless other television legal shows, you can easily recoup real and imagined losses by suing someone.
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With major insurance carriers moving out of the malpractice area, it is harder to find insurance coverage, and it can be expensive, says Bill Thompson, CIC, senior vice president and partner at Smith, Bell & Thompson, a Burlington, VT, insurance agency specializing in coverage for health-related organizations.
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Editors note: This is a periodic column that will address specific questions related to Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) implementation.
