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Don't you feel like you've given yourself a gift when you redeem those points that you earned with your credit card? A free flight, a no-cost hotel stay, or dinner at a restaurant you've always wanted to try, are all rewards offered by credit card programs in an attempt to keep you a loyal, paying customer.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) now requires certain durable medical equipment (DME) suppliers to post a surety bond.
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At Regence, a health insurer in the northwest mountain state region, case managers and disease managers work hand in hand and share an electronic care management software system that allows them to seamlessly manage the care of their Medicare Advantage members.
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A one-year study that followed 252 patients with moderate to severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) shows that home-based rehabilitation can produce the same results that outpatient hospital-based rehabilitation.
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An emergency physician (EP) diagnoses pneumonia in a 40-year-old male and treats appropriately. Later, the radiologist agrees with the pneumonia diagnosis, but suggests that "a small nodule in the left upper lobe should be evaluated with a chest CT." Somehow, that report never gets read by the ED staff, and the patient's cancer progresses until it is too late for effective treatment. A lawsuit is filed.
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Hospital emergency departments (EDs) interact with police on a daily basis with varying degrees of cooperation, but whether the cooperation is good or bad, many police interactions raise risks of violating federal EMTALA and other regulations.
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There is a growing trend of specialty organizations coming out with guidelines and recommendations, but in some cases, these are inappropriate for ED patientsand may even be harmful.
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Belligerent behavior, communication problems, inconsistent responses to questions, and lack of competency to refuse treatment: Any of these factors can get in the way of obtaining a good history and physical for a patient with psychiatric complaints, according to Barbara E. Person, an attorney with Omaha, NE-based Baird Holm.
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When the home health nurses at Little Rock, AR-based Baptist Health Home Health Network began observing that many of their patients had poorly managed chronic diseases and were not receiving evidence-based care, the network designed a new approach to delivering care for patients with chronic diseases.
