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Probably the most incendiary change in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) rule for 2011 is an ultimate reduction in hospital payments.
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Chief medical officer and executive vice president at Golden, CO-based HealthGrades, Samantha Collier, MD, MBA, is changing hats and moving inhouse.
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Requirements for credentialing and privileging telemedicine providers are up in the air for now, following the May 26 release of a proposed rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) once again has changed the requirements for physician supervision, always an area of contention and confusion, in its proposed 2011 outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) rule.
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Hamilton Ambulatory Surgery Center in Dalton, GA, has received the Summit Award from Press Ganey Associates for the fourth year in a row.
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Representatives at Emerus Emergency Hospitals, a licensed emergency specialty hospital company based in The Woodlands, TX, have been telling patients at several of its "24-hour EDs" for months now that if they are not seen by a physician within 15 minutes, the hospital will pay for their $1,000 visit. So far, the new policy is working quite well, say Emerus representatives.
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Improving patient satisfaction is "a high priority" for the patient access department at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago, according to Michael F. Sciarabba, MPH, CHAM, the hospital's director of patient access services.
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From about 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday to Friday a hospital is a busy place with a host of clinical and administrative staff and department chairs and chiefs. But on nights and weekends, it's often quite different.
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Whether it's over-alerting or under-alerting, it's a problem. A number of studies have taken on computerized physician order entry (CPOE), but the latest findings from a Leapfrog Group study made public June 28 shows CPOE problems can lead to harmful or even fatal errors.
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The traditional hospital system in which physicians are staffed during the day and on call at night is not the only model. And certainly, as the health care industry becomes more aware of the quality of care for the traditional off-peak shifts, that model could change quite radically in the future.
