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Hospital revamped admission process to comply with two-midnight rule
When CMS issued the two-midnight rule in 2013, the case management department at Northwestern Lake Forest (IL) Hospital began an initiative to change the admission process to comply with the new regulations.
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Educate observation patients on what 'observation' means to them
Many patients receiving observation services believe they have been admitted to the hospital until weeks after discharge when they get a substantial bill for their share of services.
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Beef up your documentation reviews to ensure reimbursement is appropriate
Many of the problems the Medicare Administrative Contractors have cited during their Probe and Educate audits revolve around documentation, says Bridget Gulotta, RN, senior consultant for The Camden Group, a national healthcare consulting firm.
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Inpatient vs. Observation: Will it Ever be Clear?
CMS issued the two-midnight rule in 2013 but even after three rounds audits by the Medicare Administrative Contractors, hospitals still struggle to get it right.
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ED Push - June 2015 Second Issue
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Convexal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage and Amyloid Angiopathy
Cerebral amyloid angiopathy is emerging as a major cause of spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage in the elderly. The authors of this study undertook a careful review of all of the patients in their database over a 9-year period who had spontaneous convexal subarachnoid hemorrhage, and they performed a careful longitudinal analysis of clinical and neuroimaging data.
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Consequences of Intracerebral Hemorrhage in Young Adults
Intracerebral hemorrhage accounts for 10-20% of all strokes in North America and Europe, with an overall incidence of 25 cases per 100,000 population annually. In this study, the authors evaluated the long-term survival and recovery of 268 1-month survivors ages 16-49 years to assess the prognosis of intracerebral hemorrhage in the younger group.
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Can Dietary Intervention Delay the Onset of Alzheimer’s Disease?
In a prospective study of an elderly population, moderate adherence to the MIND diet was associated with a 53% reduction in the development of Alzheimer’s disease.
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Diagnosing POLG-related Diseases
Mutations of the polymerase-gamma subunit in mitochondrial DNA is a common cause of adult mitochondrial syndromes, such as myopathies, encephalopathies, epilepsy, and ataxias.
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Prevalence of Rest Tremor in Essential Tremor
Rest tremor is seen in patients with more advanced essential tremor, yet its prevalence varies significantly between patient groups.