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Incorporates a productivity adjustment reduction into the market basket update beginning in fiscal year (FY) 2013,
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This is the first of a two-part series examining the impact of some regulatory and financial changes faced by hospices during recent years. This month's article looks at the increased need for technology to manage hospice billing and data collection. Next month we look at how agencies have met the challenge of physician notes in records, staff training, and management of increased administrative tasks
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Although prior privacy requirements called for home health agencies to notify patients when a breach of privacy was discovered, the Health Information Technology and Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009 (HITECH) specifically identifies time frames and content of notifications.
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On Feb. 17, 2009, the Health Information Technology and Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009 (HITECH) was enacted. On that date, tiered civil monetary penalties were put into place for violations following the enactment, and state attorneys general were given the authority to enforce the act.
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Will funding from the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), propel state Medicaid programs forward with the use of electronic health records (EHRs)? Or will state fiscal crises or other unforeseen problems prevent the hoped-for progress?
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The risk of relapse after effective therapy with plasma exchange for thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) has not been well-characterized.
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Bendamustine was first synthesized in 1963 in East Germany, but its clinical development as an anti-neoplastic agent really began after the fall of the Iron Curtain.
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A 44-year-old male patient is seen in the emergency room because of intractable nose bleed, hematuria, and ecchymoses all first noted within the past 48 hours. Previously he had been well, without known medical illness, and was taking no prescription drugs.
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An irate customer called the access center at Virtua in Marlton, NJ, complaining that she could not take her child on a maternity tour because of the new visitor restrictions enforced due to the H1N1 outbreak. "She was so upset when she first called that she threatened not to have her new baby at Virtua," says Ninfa Saunders, RN, MSN, MBA, PhD, executive vice president for health services.