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Do you take the ultra-cautious approach and issue a Home Health Advance Beneficiary Notice (HHABN) in any case in which you are not sure if the new rules apply, or do you take a chance and hope that you've interpreted the instructions correctly?
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Optima Health's asthma disease management program has generated $2.10 in savings for every dollar spent on members who have been continuously enrolled over a five-year period.
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Increased efficiency, improved documentation, and faster reimbursement are all reasons to upgrade your agency's technology.
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Record numbers of veterans will die this year, and veteran deaths will remain high for the next decade, experts say.
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Some of the principles instilled in military men and women during their service are what make it so difficult for the same people to achieve peace while dying, experts say.
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A Minnesota hospital system has created a grief program that uses some of the best strategies of hospice bereavement support in helping families who are suffering after the death of their children.
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With a growing knowledge about the risk of infections and patient safety hazards such as medication errors, patients are becoming health care's new partners in prevention. Driven by consumer advocacy groups and the patient safety movement, the age of the empowered patient is at hand.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will soon issue new guidelines on multidrug resistant pathogens that include a more aggressive approach to the controversial issue of active surveillance, Hospital Infection Control has learned.
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Hospitals have begun offering pertussis vaccines to their employees in an effort to protect vulnerable patients from a disease that is most contagious in its early stages, when it may go undetected.
