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The National Association of Healthcare Access Management (NAHAM) credentialing programs for patient access services managers and front-line staff are being completely revised and updated, with new certification examinations to be offered beginning in October 2008.
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Some outpatients at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) are being preregistered on their own timetable by choosing to provide their information via the Internet or an automated telephone process called VoiCentral, says Mica Dunn, CHAM, CHAA, manager of the outpatient registration department.
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Many uninsured households can't afford the out-of-pocket costs associated with health savings account-qualified high-deductible health plans, according to a recent study by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has announced changes to the provider self-disclosure protocol (SDP), which health care providers use to voluntarily disclose self-discovered evidence of potential fraud, and to its process for resolving those cases.
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An 85% increase in the number of Internet hacker attacks on its health care clients has been reported by SecureWorks, a security-as-a-service provider.
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The SWAN is a multisite, multi ethnic, prospective, observational, longitudinal study of 3302 women who were enrolled between 1995-1997.
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HABITS was a randomized but not placebo-controlled trial in which hormone therapy was compared to management without hormones in women with menopausal symptoms who had been previously treated for Stage I or Stage II breast cancer.1 Concomitant tamoxifen treatment was allowed in the HABITS patients but not aromatase inhibiters.
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The authors set out to determine the preventive services and counseling provided by gynecologists, general medical physicians, or both. Using the 2000 National Health Interview Survey, the study population included women aged 18-64 years of age (with regard to Pap smear, use of tobacco, and exercise/diet counseling) and women in the 50-64 age group (previous parameters plus breast examinations, mammograms, and colon cancer screening). Sixty-two percent of patients were seen by gynecologists, 15% by general medical physicians, and 23% by both.
