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OIG Auditing Medicare Payments for Telehealth
Healthcare organizations offering telehealth services should expect more scrutiny from the federal government now that the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General has announced plans to review Medicare payments for telehealth services, seeking to confirm the patient was at an eligible originating site and that the statutory conditions for coverage were met.
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ASC 606 Standard Requires Proper Reporting of Revenue
The Department of Justice’s campaign against healthcare fraud puts hospitals and health systems at risk in many ways, and they could find themselves subject to even greater fraud risk as the 2018 compliance deadline for a new standard of revenue reporting fast approaches.
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Scathing Results from Police Investigations of Nurse Arrest
The Salt Lake City Police Department conducted two separate investigations of the arrest of nurse Alex Wubbels, RN, and the results echo the reactions of many who have seen the videos.
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Hospital Revises Policy on Police Requests
The University of Utah Hospital continues to refine its policies for encounters with law enforcement, recently rolling out a new policy that requires police to go through the hospital’s customer service office with any request.
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Video Shows Aggressive Arrest of Nurse
The videos showing the arrest of nurse Alex Wubbels are disturbing to many viewers, but especially to risk managers and other healthcare professionals who understand the dilemma faced by a clinician trying to comply with hospital policy and the law when law enforcement demands otherwise.
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Nurse Arrest Puts Focus on Hospital Security, Policies
The highly publicized arrest of a Utah nurse for refusing to allow a police request to draw blood on an unconscious patient drew attention to how hospital policies and procedures should protect staff in such confrontations, and particularly the role that in-house police and security officers should play.
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Too Many ‘John Does?’ Tighten Processes for Unidentified Patients
Unidentified patients pose safety concerns because of the possibility of duplicate medical record creation and patient misidentification. Several approaches may help minimize safety concerns.
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Defendants Prevail on Negligent Postoperative Care Claim
A jury found that defendant physician followed standard of care following a patient's knee surgery.
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Physician, Hospital Negligence Found After Hypoxic Brain Damage to Infant
Failure to monitor fetal vital signs led to infant's hypoxia and cerebral palsy after birth.
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One-third Have Experienced Cybersecurity Incidents with Medical Devices
More than one-third of medical device professionals reported that their organizations have experienced a cybersecurity incident in the past year, according to a recent survey.