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When faculty and researchers' anger and complaints rose heavily against a university's IRB, a new vice chancellor of health sciences took charge, hiring someone to answer the criticism through policy and personnel changes.
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The IRB at East Carolina University of Greenville, NC, was able to satisfy investigators' complaints and improve response times, partly through an overhaul of its policies and procedures.
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An oncology program, launched in January by Cigna HealthCare, provides members with cancer support through diagnosis, treatment, and survival.
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More than 800 people have been screened and more than 100 are being treated for previously undiagnosed hypertension thanks to a program sponsored by CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield conducted in barber shops and beauty salons in Baltimore's African-American community.
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Case management involvement in the documentation enhancement process can be limited to monitoring specific DRGs and collaborating closely with coding specialists to an environment where the case management department has staff whose entire focus is on documentation enhancement, asserts Lorraine Larrance, BSN, MHSA, CPHQ, CCM, manager with Pershing Yoakley & Associates, a Charlotte, NC, health care consulting firm.
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When it comes to coding, a rose by any other name may mean that your hospital isn't getting the reimbursement it deserves.
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When Nancy Skinner, RN, CCM, was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2004, she asked her health plan for a case manager to help her navigate through the health care system during treatment.
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Many top hospital decision makers still fail to recognize that case management is a core function of patient care, not an optional service that needs to prove return on investment, says Karen Zander, RN, MS, CMAC, FAAN, principal and co-owner of the Center for Case Management in South Natick, MA.
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When admitting and registration supervisor Tammy Wellons entered Sumter Regional Medical Center in Americus, GA, just minutes after a tornado ripped through the 143-bed facility, her first impression was that it looked like a scene from a horror film.
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A turning point in Michael Friedberg's tenure as patient access director at an inner-city, multi-hospital system came when he "got fed up" with the reactive management style.
