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Investigators are studying the way antiretroviral (ART) drugs penetrate the body, particularly focusing on the genital tracts to examine the potential for these drugs to impact the areas where HIV transmission most often occurs.
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The Grassroot Project program was adapted from curriculum implemented across sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, where it was more commonly known as Grassroot Soccer.
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Improving patient satisfaction is "a high priority" for the patient access department at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago, according to Michael F. Sciarabba, MPH, CHAM, the hospital's director of patient access services.
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Representatives at Emerus Emergency Hospitals, a licensed emergency specialty hospital company based in The Woodlands, TX, have been telling patients at several of its "24-hour EDs" for months now that if they are not seen by a physician within 15 minutes, the hospital will pay for their $1,000 visit. So far, the new policy is working quite well, say Emerus representatives.
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Hamilton Ambulatory Surgery Center in Dalton, GA, has received the Summit Award from Press Ganey Associates for the fourth year in a row.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) once again has changed the requirements for physician supervision, always an area of contention and confusion, in its proposed 2011 outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) rule.
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Requirements for credentialing and privileging telemedicine providers are up in the air for now, following the May 26 release of a proposed rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
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Chief medical officer and executive vice president at Golden, CO-based HealthGrades, Samantha Collier, MD, MBA, is changing hats and moving inhouse.
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Probably the most incendiary change in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) rule for 2011 is an ultimate reduction in hospital payments.