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Although patient care is the No. 1 priority for outpatient surgery managers and staff members, a growing number of health care employees are recognizing that their workday activities can affect more than a patient's health. They also can affect the environment.
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Antibiotic-resistant infections are not new to the health care setting, but headlines throughout the country have increased public awareness of the potential risk of infection to a wider range of people in the community.
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Two international cases show how phone use during surgery can be cited as a contributing cause to alleged malpractice. In a case from Israel, a woman underwent hand surgery in Tel Aviv's Sheba Medical Center and then filed a lawsuit claiming malpractice by her surgeon.
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In many cases, inappropriate phone calls are more obvious to people other than the patient or the manager. For instance, Bonnie Russell, owner of 1st-Pick.com, a public relations agency in Del Mar, CA, says she has had several conversations with surgeon clients while they were operating on patients.
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HealthSouth Corp. and two physicians will pay $14.9 million to settle allegations that the company gave the government false claims and paid illegal kickbacks to physicians who referred patients to its ambulatory surgery centers and hospitals, as well as its outpatient rehabilitation clinics, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ).
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There is little doubt that the budget problems and added demand on limited resources that undocumented immigrants contribute to health care institutions is real, and that institutions located closest to the border bear the greatest burden.
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CMS offers clarification on HIPAA medical privacy rule; 'Medicare should cover care coordination services'
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The blurring of lines between the role of social worker and nurse case manager in discharge planning has been the source of tension between the two specialties for more than two decades. But one expert says some organizations spend perhaps a little too much time defining roles and too little time figuring out ways to share responsibility.
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Changes to Medicare's Important Message (IM), informing patients of their rights to Medicare services and to question discharge decisions, which went into effect in July 2007, coincided with a revamping of the hospital-issued notices of noncoverage (HINNs) that notify patients of their financial responsibility if they receive services not covered by Medicare.
