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Although many home health agencies address flu vaccinations, either formally or informally, more agencies neglect the pneumonia vaccine, says William Schaffner, MD, chairman of the department of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, TN.
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ouve been evaluating your Outcome Based Quality Monitoring Reports, but why worry about Outcome Based Quality Improvement (OBQI) reports?Because state surveyors have access to the information, and they may be using it to prepare for their visits as early as January 2003, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) officials.
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A new Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed rule is designed to speed up the availability of generic drugs and reduce costs for consumers.
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Last December, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM) in Detroit mailed coupons to about 7,000 member homes. These coupons waived the copayment when members tried a generic version of a brand-name drug for the first time.
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In an effort to reduce medical errors and comply with patient safety standards, one Georgia medical center has turned to automation.
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Notifying patients of their privacy rights under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is one of the tasks that fall most squarely onto the shoulders of access managers.
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Recruiting and retaining qualified employees is an ongoing concern for access managers, who are in the position of offering comparatively low wages for a job that just keeps getting more complicated.
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Hospitals that have long designed and used their own advance beneficiary notices (ABN) to inform patients that a service is not likely to be covered by Medicare now should be using a form released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
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As hospitals design policies in response to demands of the new privacy rule under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), access managers are faced with implementing the fine points of the procedures that will be required.
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With Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance and post-Sept. 11 security concerns in mind, Ohio State University Medical Center in Columbus has revamped its policies and procedures regarding the release of information on patients religious preferences, says Shannon Haager, assistant director of patient access services.
