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In 2004, as talk of health care reform escalated, North Oaks Health System appointed a multidisciplinary process improvement team to determine what changes the hospital needed to make to prepare for where health care was going in the future.
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If you're not already doing it, you need to start reviewing the cases of your patients receiving Medicaid benefits as vigorously as you do those of Medicare patients.
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There's little doubt that as health care reform rolls out and all payers tighten their reimbursement, hospitals are going to depend more and more on case managers to help them ensure that patients receive the appropriate services in an efficient manner and safely move to the next level of care.
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The ECG above was obtained from a slender and previously healthy 27-year-old woman having atypical chest discomfort. Is there evidence of chamber enlargement?
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The prophylactic use of aspirin (asa) provides risk reduction when used for secondary prophylaxis.
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The FDA has approved the first oral medication for the treatment of patients with relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis.
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The introduction of acellular pertussis vaccines represented an important advance in public health, but developing a vaccine is not synonymous with protecting a population.
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Three 8-oz glasses of fat-free milk per day provided significant relief to patients with functional constipation.
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There will be dramatic changes in the works for patient access departments as a result of health care reform legislation. That is for certain. But many important details are still unclear.