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If its not currently doing so, your case management department should make use of your Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER) to identify areas where you may be overcoding or undercoding, medical necessity of admissions is questionable, or readmissions are too frequent.
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When Sonja Boone, MD, director of diversity for Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, talks to case managers about how they can provide patient-centered care to people from other cultures, she encourages them to talk directly to the patients about their beliefs and practices and about how the hospital can meet their needs.
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An administrative huddle at Latter Day Saints (LDS) Hospital in Salt Lake City has been tremendously helpful in determining when to postpone elective surgeries, but it has had a much broader impact on patient flow in the emergency department (ED) and the hospital as a whole.
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Emergency department (ED) managers may not possess a crystal ball, but the ability to predict future events is nonetheless critical to their success, notes Bonnie Coalt, RN, MS, director of nursing at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, OH.
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When reading a New England Journal of Medicine article1 describing intensive monitoring of blood glucose levels for surgical intensive care unit (ICU) patients on ventilators, which resulted in decreased mortality rates, James Krinsley, MD, director of critical care at Stamford (CT) Hospital, had a revelation.
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Two of your surgeons want you to purchase an expensive piece of technology, but youre wary because youre unsure how much they will use it. What should you do?
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In-room registration reduces patients total length of stay significantly, says this study from the Childrens Hospital and Health System in Milwaukee.
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Instead of deleting 100 procedures from the list of procedures approved by Medicare for ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will delete only five procedures for which it received no comments, based on an interim final rule that has been published.
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A special bulletin has been disseminated only to law enforcement agencies and select health care providers in which the authorities warn about the danger of people impersonating various officials to gain access to hospitals. The bulletin notes, Counterterrorism analysts remain concerned that terrorist organizations may attempt to target U.S. medical infrastructure in order to cause immediate casualties and disrupt health care and emergency medical services.
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Officials at two small hospitals in New Jersey confirm that impostors tried to gain access to their facility in scenarios that match the accounts heard from other hospitals across the country.
