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Insurance brokers can be a key resource for hospitals, but risk managers often end up working with a broker for all the wrong reasons. Sometimes the broker has been with the organization for years with no one questioning the relationship, for example.
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A female doctor claimed to have suffered years of gender discrimination from a hospitals chief of surgery.
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If you are using an electronic health record (EHR) provided by EHRMagic in Santa Fe Springs, CA, you have a problem.
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Maximizing patient safety is the top priority for hospital C-suite executives and risk managers in the United States, but the lack of teamwork, negative culture, and poor communication will present barriers to patient safety in the future, according to a survey commissioned by American International Group (AIG) in New York City.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently proposed a rule that revises the exception, known as the Stark Exception, to the federal physician self-referral prohibition (the Stark Law) for certain arrangements involving the donation of electronic health record (EHR) items and services to physicians or other allied health providers.
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Leveraging knowledge gained from previous initiatives, including an Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)/Ascension Health/Premier collaboration, hospitals in the Premier Perinatal Safety Initiative (PPSI) use two methods to create high-reliability healthcare teams: increased adherence to evidence-based care bundles, and enhanced communication and teamwork.
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Healthcare giant HCA, based in Nashville, TN, must pay a Kansas City, MO, charitable foundation $162 million and undergo extensive auditing after a judge found that the for-profit hospital operator broke key agreements regarding charity care and capital expenditures in its billion-dollar purchase of hospitals from Health Midwest in 2002.
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The maximum penalty for a data breach under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is now $1.5 million, six times higher than the original fine under the law. That change is just one of the significant changes in the final HIPAA rule released recently by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
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These are some of the key changes in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) final rule released recently by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS):
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Revenue and finance will be affected significantly by healthcare reform, and key aspects of reform already are impacting revenue streams, says Erin M. OConnor, Esq., practice leader with Cammack LaRhette Consulting in New York City.
