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Give special attention to the ED, or face significant liability
It can happen in any hospital: A patient comes to the emergency department and is determined to need psychiatric care, so a bed is requested. The patient waits, and waits, and waits. Three days later, the patient is still in the emergency department, and staff members realize he has a blood clot and pulmonary embolism that were prompted by immobility during the long wait.
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Sanders Places Hold on FDA Nominee
Presidential candidate says Duke cardiologist too close to pharmaceutical companies to lead government agency.
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HHS offers guidance to patients on accessing their protected health information
Responding to complaints that the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act sometimes makes it difficult for patients to obtain their own medical records, the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights recently issued guidance to help people better exercise their existing rights for accessing that information.
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Data analysis reveals most common HIPAA violators
Several large pharmacy chains and health systems are among the most frequent violators of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, according to a recent report from ProPublica.
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Careful: HIPAA mental health change is limited, and not a free-for-all
President Obama’s recent announcement that he is changing the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act to allow reporting of patients with mental health issues drew acclaim from gun control advocates, but the effect on healthcare providers was not clear. -
Patient attributes examined in provider electronic systems
More than a year ago, the National Association of Healthcare Access Management offered recommendations recorded in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s 2014 Patient Identification and Matching Final Report.
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Get registrars and clinicians on same page with collections
When patient access employees started point-of-service collections at OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center in Rockford, IL, complaints were “few and far between,” says Nicole Fountain, CRCE-I, CHAM, revenue cycle director.
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Fear dissatisfaction due to collections? Be an advocate for the patient
Patient access leaders at Chicago-based Presence Health have received “fewer and fewer” complaints from patients regarding the balance that they owe, reports La’Queela Angel, director of patient payments.
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Providers have ‘one-stop shopping’ for transfers
San Francisco-based UCSF Medical Center recently implemented an Integrated Transfer Center. Patient access and clinical units work together to clinically and financially clear transfer patients.
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Get money upfront, and reduce bad debt
Collections weren’t much of a priority when copays were just $5 or $10, according to Gregory Kanetis, MPA, director of patient financial services at Lawrence (MA) General Hospital.