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The Commission for Case Manager Certification (CCMC) in Rolling Meadows, IL, is revising its Code of Professional Conduct for case managers and is seeking feedback on the draft revision from professionals in the case management field, including certified and noncertified individuals.
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If you think your hospital doesnt have a problem with denials and you arent doing anything to track them, Christine Collins, CHAM, director of patient access for Bostons Brigham & Womens Hospital, strongly suggests that you just dont know one way or the other.
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There is much to rejoice about in the final rule of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, with many of the most vexing parts of the law either clarified or eliminated altogether, but there still is plenty to keep you busy.
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To provide you with critical information on the updated regulations from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Thomson American Health Consultants offers "New EMTALA Regulations: Are They Too Good to be True?" an audio conference on Tuesday, Oct. 21, from 2:30-3:30 p.m., EST.
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When the training and data quality staff took over the competency assessment of patient access employees at Milwaukee-based Aurora Health Care, they added a little regional flair to the process. A competency fair, inspired by Wisconsins popular state fair, replaced the previous practice of having supervisors with checklists review critical functions and material with individual registrars.
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These highlights of the final EMTALA rule were summarized by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
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Question: Is it true that we can violate EMTALA by not encouraging a patient to stay for treatment when he wants to leave?
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The emphasis by Milwaukee-based Aurora Health Cares training and data quality team on making sure registrars were well acquainted with the systems process for preventing identity fraud paid off recently.
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With patient safety a heightened imperative from Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, and facing its own duplicate medical record problem, Truman Medical Center in Kansas City, MO, launched an initiative aimed at ensuring proper patient identification.
