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While most home health agencies think of emergency preparedness plans to address business operations during a natural disaster or terrorist attack, the Visiting Nurse Health System (VNHS) in Atlanta discovered that a good emergency plan also is needed when a state survey results in condition of participation-level deficiencies that jeopardized the agencys participation in Medicare.
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This is the first in a series of periodic columns that will address specific questions related to Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) implementation.
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Your budget is shrinking. Reimbursement is dropping. Expenses are rising. How can you meet the growing need for funds?
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This article aims to provide the emergency medicine practitioner evidence-based information on the evaluation and management of wounds and to help dispel some of the commonly encountered myths in the practice of wound care.
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You reviewed the instructions for initiating the first pack of oral contraceptives (OCs) with your patient. She elects to use the Sunday start, beginning pills on the first Sunday after her next period. When she returns for a follow-up visit in a few months, though, you discover she never started the pills and now is pregnant.
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Since about one-fourth of all U.S. women ages 15-44 who have ever married have undergone tubal sterilization,1 chances are that you have counseled women about their permanent contraceptive options.
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Your patient is a young mother in a mutually monogamous relationship who cannot tolerate oral contraceptives, has heavy menses, and says she doesnt want to use an injectable birth control method. She has no medical insurance coverage. What options can you offer her?
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American women now have a choice when it comes to permanent birth control: They can opt to undergo tubal ligation or choose the Essure transcervical sterilization procedure.
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Who should not use Essure?
