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Internal investigations offer the best way to detect and prevent fraud, determine its scope, and defend government investigations. Learning the scope of the problem as early as possible affords the best opportunity to prevent or limit damages.
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Hospitals are taking a stricter approach to allowing salespeople in the operating room (OR) during surgery. Other vendors also pose risks if not properly vetted and their actions at the hospital aren't limited.
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed a 1.4% inflation update factor for ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) in 2014 and a 2.5% inflation update factor for hospital outpatient departments (HOPDs).
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Electronic medical record (EMR) documentation creates some legal risks that didn't exist with paper charting. Information that doesn't accurately represent patient encounters is more easily added to the medical record.
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A multidisciplinary clinical practice guideline that helps physicians identify children most likely to benefit from tympanostomy tubes, provide the best care before and after surgery, and improve counseling and education for parents was published in a supplement to the July edition of the journal Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery.
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Clinicians should take care in online communications including the electronic posting of information and the exchange of information via computers and phones.
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