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Careful yearly planning always has been the key to effective survey preparation, and much of what you should do is independent of how soon you will be surveyed. The move to unannounced surveys will make it even more important to plan compliance activities throughout the calendar year.
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Responding to the potential for new terrorist attacks in the United States, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations has issued a report warning of a brewing cataclysm of underfunding, inexperience, and unpreparedness of emergency response capabilities across America.
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The upcoming switch to unannounced surveys by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations will require a dramatic change in how you prepare for the visit, experts say.
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One out of three seniors who breaks a hip this year will die as a result of complications from the fracture, but simple fitness measures can greatly reduce a seniors risk of falling, say University of Arkansas at Fayetteville (UA) researchers.
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Medical Banking Project founder John Casillas says one of the changes in the final Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) security rule eliminated any requirement to encrypt electronically transmitted protected health information, even over the Internet or other open networks.
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The Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a checklist to help health care providers who do business electronically and their business partners to comply with the administrative simplification requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA).
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Many rehab units have found that the inpatient prospective payment system (PPS) has either improved their bottom line or left it alone. But such programs tend to have a case mix that runs toward the average.
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (OCR) director Richard Campanelli says voluntary compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) medical privacy rule is the best way to protect health information.
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More hospitals than ever have received warning letters from the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) because they have lost-time injury and illness rates that are twice the national average for all industry.
