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Recruiting and retaining qualified employees is an ongoing concern for access managers, who are in the position of offering comparatively low wages for a job that just keeps getting more complicated.
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Notifying patients of their privacy rights under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is one of the tasks that fall most squarely onto the shoulders of access managers.
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In an effort to reduce medical errors and comply with patient safety standards, one Georgia medical center has turned to automation.
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Last December, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM) in Detroit mailed coupons to about 7,000 member homes. These coupons waived the copayment when members tried a generic version of a brand-name drug for the first time.
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A new Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed rule is designed to speed up the availability of generic drugs and reduce costs for consumers.
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ouve been evaluating your Outcome Based Quality Monitoring Reports, but why worry about Outcome Based Quality Improvement (OBQI) reports?Because state surveyors have access to the information, and they may be using it to prepare for their visits as early as January 2003, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) officials.
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Although many home health agencies address flu vaccinations, either formally or informally, more agencies neglect the pneumonia vaccine, says William Schaffner, MD, chairman of the department of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, TN.
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At the beginning of this years flu vaccination season, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) changed the rules for flu and pneumonia vaccinations. Prior to Oct. 2 of this year, each vaccination administered to a home health patient had to be accompanied by an order from the patients physician.
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Operating a community flu clinic is a good way to make sure your home health agencys name is associated with good will in the community, says Susan R. McCarter, RN, community educator for Diversified Home Health Services in Towson, MD.
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As hospitals design policies in response to demands of the new privacy rule under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), compliance officers are faced with implementing the fine points of the procedures that will be required.