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A new rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) makes it imperative that case managers and/or discharge planners be familiar with new coverage requirements for inpatient rehabilitation facilities and that they begin discharge planning earlier with inpatient stay, says Jackie Birmingham, RN, MSN, MS, vice president of regulatory monitoring and clinical leadership at Curaspan Health Group.
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Acknowledging, respecting, and accommodating the role of the patient caregiver in physician-patient relationships was the impetus for a position paper published earlier this year by the American College of Physicians (ACP) and developed by its Ethics, Professionalism and Human Rights Committee.
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The latest in a series of papers published by researchers led by Angelo Volandes, MD, MPH, instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School and documentary filmmaker, looked at the use of a video depicting real-life cardiopulmonary resuscitation, as well as other life-sustaining treatments often faced by patients at the end of life.
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The American Society for Bioethics and Humanities voted in 2006 to create a task force to revise the core competencies expected for those who perform ethics consults and for ethics consult services.
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Recent reports that a Texas woman had her son's sperm retrieved following his unexpected death made headlines, while the American Society of Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) is in the process of updating its ethics policy on "posthumous donation" of germ cells using either eggs or sperm.
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[Editor's note: This is a continuation of Medical Ethics Advisor's March coverage of disclosure of medical errors and apologizing for errors in the March issue.]
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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced on March 18 that it is creating a public database that researchers, consumers, health care providers, and others can search for information submitted voluntarily by genetic test providers.
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Managing contracted services is required by both The Joint Commission and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and if not managed well can be a huge risk to your organization.
