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Two hospitals in Colorado were accused of harvesting a mans organs before he was declared dead. The coroner actually ruled the death a homicide, saying the cause was removal of his internal organs by an organ recovery team. The only trouble with the story? The coroners conclusions were wrong, according to everyone involved except the coroner himself.
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Dennis S. OLeary, MD, president of JCAHO, tells Healthcare Risk Management that risk managers should take a lead role in ensuring that all staff members are aware of the problem of anesthesia awareness.
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Risk managers may have thought about their facilities as potential targets of terrorists, but have you ever considered that you might be the source of nuclear material used in an attack?
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Hospitals will not be required to report a patients immigration status to receive funding for uncompensated emergency care provided to undocumented immigrants, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has said in a letter to the American Hospital Association.
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An Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) requirement regarding the responsibilities of hospitals when a patient is transferred to another facility was clarified recently by Stephen Frew, JD, a risk management consultant and EMTALA expert.
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Providers and health plan representatives say two provisions of the HIPAA privacy rule the requirement to account for certain information disclosures and the requirement to develop agreements with business associates that extend privacy protections downstream are unnecessarily burdensome, according to a recent report from the Government Accountability Office.
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In response to the national shortage of vaccine, Thomson American Health Consultants has developed an influenza sourcebook to ensure you and your hospital are prepared for what you may face this flu season.
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A new best practice registration manual, jointly written by an eight-member team at Adventist Health, has been very useful for both new registration hires and admitting managers throughout the hospital system, says Ken Mitchell, MM, CHFP, director of patient financial services at Adventist Medical Center in Portland, OR.
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Responding to a rising number of self-pay patients particularly those coming through the emergency department Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta pulled out all the stops to expand and improve its financial counseling program.
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When the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center-Presbyterian in Philadelphia turned its attention to addressing the facilitys bad debt, it quickly became clear that self-pay accounts coming out of the emergency department (ED) were the root of the problem.
