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A culturally insensitive remark to the grandchild of a patient not only resulted in the home care nurse being thrown out of the home, but also resulted in a major change in the way the home care and hospice program of Catholic Health Service (CHS) of Long Island addressed cultural differences between patients and employees.
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For the past 20 years, hospices have operated under the Hospice Medicare Benefit model people get sick and exhaust their curative options, and a hospice is there waiting to take care of them. The future of hospice is shaping up to be quite different from a static point on a line that patients travel while moving from one provider type to the next.
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Twenty years ago, hospices broke into the Medicare market with the Hospice Medicare benefit, a bold move by many hospices to elect a per diem payment for care of a patient whose cost of care could exceed the total of per diem payments. Today hospice must consider another risky proposition.
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A report issued late last year by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundations Promoting Excellence national program office in Missoula, MT, highlights some provocative new directions for end-of-life care policy and financing. One of its most provocative themes is a concept called simultaneous care.
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If your ED already is experiencing high vacancy rates for nursing staff, decreased morale, and increased patient volume, try this on for size: What if you suddenly lost several nurses, technicians, and physicians without notice for an undetermined period of time?
This is the scenario many EDs may face in the coming months as a result of losing staff due to military call-ups.
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Emergency department full capacity protocol for in-house hall bed placement from Stony Brook (NY) University Hospital and Medical Center.
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Violations of HIPAA's oral privacy requirements, which go into effect April 14, 2003, may result in civil penalties of up to $25,000 for each requirement violated, and criminal penalties of up to $50,000 and one year in prison for obtaining or disclosing protected health information.
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This is the first part of a two-part series on improving ED reimbursement under ambulatory payment classifications. This month, we cover nursing assessment criteria, ED chargemasters, billing for evaluation and management services services, and observation services.
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As an ED manager, you should take note of a new study reporting that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology can detect heart attacks faster than other methods in ED patients with chest pain.
