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This periodic column addresses specific questions related to Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) implementation.
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It took about 18 months of hard work, but the staff at Visiting Nurse Association of Southeast Michigan in Oak Park found the solution to the recruitment and retention problem that made the agency look like a revolving door for registered nurses.
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One crucial difference between home care and institutional care is that field staff essentially work without routine, direct supervision. The cost of providing direct supervision for staff as they provide services to home-care patients clearly is prohibitive. Consequently, providers are vulnerable to claims that they failed to adequately supervise staff.
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CMS rolls out its quality initiative; FDA approves new Alzheimers drug; Study shows caregivers often overestimate pain
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Beginning April 1, 2004, ambulatory surgery center (ASC) payment rates will be frozen until 2010. And the news may be worse: The payments may be frozen at a rate that is 1% below current rates.
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The recently passed Medicare bill would impose an 18-month moratorium on development of new specialty hospitals, including surgical hospitals, and limit expansion of existing ones retroactively beginning Nov. 18, 2003.
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Could you perform surgery if patients had their hands tied together and were being watched by armed soldiers? Can you imagine treating patients in rooms that are coated regularly with dirt and sand?
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Looking for a program that attracts new patients, requires a minimum of staff education, and nets an average profit of between $1,200 and $1,300 per procedure?
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In outpatient surgery, a patients pain is treated immediately after surgery, and patients are sent home.
