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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.
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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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CMS offers clarification on HIPAA medical privacy rule; 'Medicare should cover care coordination services'
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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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The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston has long been the hospital where indigent patients including illegal immigrants sought care.
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A recent bestselling novel centers around five pivotal people the main character meets in the afterlife. But ethics researchers at The Hastings Center say there are five pivotal people that public health leaders are going to want to meet now, to prepare and protect them before an influenza pandemic.
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A Veterans Health Administration (VA) hospital's move to make its chapel religiously neutral by removing Christian symbols except during Christian services is under fire by two veterans who are considering legal action over what they say is suppression of Christians' freedom of religion.
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Many genetic tests advertised directly to consumers are "home brews" that are neither regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), nor clinically valid, according to findings by a Boston obstetrics/gynecology specialist.
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The Bioethics Resource Group (BRG), a medical ethics education organization in Charlotte, NC, voted to shut itself down in December after 22 years in which it fostered hospital ethics committees and educated clinicians on advance directives and do-not-resuscitate orders.
