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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued the first in a projected series of seven papers to provide guidance for covered entities.
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An authorization system recently implemented at the University Hospital of Arkansas in Little Rock is on track to streamline the pre-certification process and reduce payer denials, explains the director of hospital admissions.
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An outpatient surgery patient called back after discharge with complaints that indicated significant internal bleeding, but the staff member who answered the phone didnt recognize the signs and didnt refer the person to emergency care or a physician. By the next day, the patient had died.
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Determining the best way to sterilize and repair a flexible endoscopes damage after its been used to check an airplane gas tank for leaks is not a problem that most same-day surgery managers encounter. Staff members and physicians understand more about the fragile nature of scopes than they did 15 years ago, when this incident occurred at a hospital-based outpatient surgery program.
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The average surgical corridor looks like the ending scenes in a disaster movie where all the actors claim, We can rebuild it and make it better than it was. Look around your facility, and you will see what Im talking about: a mess. Over the months and years, our eyes have filtered it out. We minimize the optical clutter, but it still is there.
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What are the deadlines for compliance with the HIPAA security rule? What happens to noncompliant providers on April 20, 2005? Where should I start when putting together my compliance plan?
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Dissecting an endoscope to see what the interior components looked like was fun for the staff at Green Spring Station Endoscopy in Lutherville, MD. More importantly, it was educational and the perfect first step in the same-day surgery programs effort to improve handling and care of scopes to reduce the cost of repair.
