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Frontline access management staff at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston face excruciating tasks on a daily basis.
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Hospitals struggling to survive while absorbing an increasing amount of uncompensated health care are welcoming recent changes to federal patient-dumping legislation that clarify and limit the instances in which hospitals are required to provide care regardless of a patients ability to pay.
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Concerned that their loved ones mental capacities may not be able to keep up with their physical maturity, parents and guardians of adults and adolescents with mental retardation sometimes seek to have these people undergo medical sterilization procedures to prevent what they perceive as the potential burden of unanticipated parenthood.
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Ask many physicians about informed consent and often youll find they consider it a concept clear in ethics texts, but murky in practice.
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When an explosion happened at a nearby bean processing plant, the good news was that Mercy Medical Center in Sioux City, IA, was ready to handle the eight injured workers brought in for treatment.
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It was pretty close to business as usual for New York Presbyterian Hospital during the electrical blackout that hit a large swath of the northeastern United States in August 2003, but with one important realization gained: The information systems department was located too far from the main campus.
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New regulations regarding the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act notwithstanding, patient access managers continue to seek clarity on exactly how much registration activity may take place in the emergency department before a patients treatment is completed.
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Legal concerns addressed regarding JCAHO review; Medicaid spending slows, first time in seven years; EMTALA sourcebook cuts through new regs
