Hospital Home Health Archives – November 1, 2006
November 1, 2006
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Solution to financial challenges requires attack on different fronts
When asked about financial issues that affect their agencies, many home health managers might talk about billing, rejected claims, or collection of past due bills. -
2006 Salary Survey Report: Avoid hiring woes: Keep your good employees
While many managers look carefully at how their outpatient surgery programs recruit new employees, it is just as important to look carefully at what you are doing to retain the good employees you have now, say experts interviewed by Hospital Home Health. -
LegalEase: New requirements for fraud, abuse compliance
The Deficit Reduction Act (DRA) was signed into law by President Bush on Feb. 8, 2006. The DRA contains new requirements intended to reduce Medicaid fraud and abuse. -
Initiatives aim to enhance patient communications
A report offering guidelines to help health care organizations ensure effective, patient-centered communications with patients of diverse backgrounds has been released by the American Medical Association (AMA) Ethical Force Program. -
Speaking their language: Crossing cultural barriers
Navigating the health care system often is bewildering for people who were born in the United States and speak English; it may be incomprehensible for some of this country's growing immigrant population, who bring their own cultural beliefs and practices with them. -
Learn cultural practices of the population you serve
When Jane Cavanaugh, RN, CCM, CPHQ, nurse case manager for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, began managing the care of a Vietnamese woman with lung cancer, she researched beliefs of the Vietnamese culture and tailored her care management plan around them. -
News Brief
For the first time in several years, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations has revised the look-alike/sound-alike drug list.