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In its final inpatient prospective payment system (PPS) regulations for fiscal year 2007, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has included some "modest" changes to the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) regulations, says M. Steven Lipton, an attorney with Davis Wright in San Francisco.
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With the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) announcing its intention to cut down on Medicaid and Medicare fraud, it is more important than ever for case managers to make sure that they report any fraudulent conduct and carefully document it to avoid being held responsible, Elizabeth Hogue, Esq., suggests.
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This month, St. Joseph's Medical Center in Towson, MD, will begin discharging patients by appointment, in the latest phase of a three-year effort toward capacity maximization, says Jackie Connor, RN, MS, CCS, director of case management.
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When Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America aired this spring on ABC, many health care providers dismissed the movie as pure, exaggerated fiction about what could happen in terms of a pandemic or other patient surges.
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Eye surgeons need to know if patients are taking alpha-blockers to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) because those drugs can cause complications during cataract surgery, say several national associations.
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A recent issue of Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society contains a special section of nine articles that focus on research designed to identify patient safety issues that can be addressed from an ergonomics perspective.
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Reviewing the standards requirements, poring over checklists, and preparing staff members for survey questions may be standard procedure for all outpatient surgery programs that prepare for accreditation surveys, but office-based programs face certain challenges that hospital-based and freestanding outpatient surgery programs don't encounter.
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Involvement of family members in discharge education and use of a comprehensive medication reconciliation form were the reason for two of the compliments paid to the office-based surgery practice of Gary Burton, MD, a plastic surgeon in Bowie, MD.
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Education and competency testing for all employees and physicians regarding pandemics should be mandatory, according to new guidance from the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN).
