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Fewer instruments to handle, no risk of electrosurgical burns, less postoperative pain, and a speedier recovery are the advantages of a new tonsillectomy technique that uses radio frequency waves and salt water to remove tissue without damaging surrounding healthy tissue, according to surgeons performing the procedure.
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When a claim isnt paid in a timely manner, your billers need to document communication with the payer and follow up with e-mails, said Ann S. Deters, MBA, CPA, CEO and founder of SevenD & Associates, an Effingham, IL-based consulting and management company affiliated with 17 surgery centers.
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According to new research from the Rockville, MD-based Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), children in hospitals often experience adverse patient safety events (i.e., medical injuries or errors) in the course of their care, with those in vulnerable populations, including children younger than 1 year, at highest risk.
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You may not be an architect, but it might be time for you to start paying a little more attention to the way your hospital is designed especially if youre about to have a new facility built or youre embarking on a substantial renovation.
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With a growing number of private insurers and agencies such as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) heavily involved in pay-for-performance arrangements, quality managers should become proactive about exploring and understanding this growing trend, says one pay-for-performance expert.
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Make no mistake about it. Hospital CEOs are paying greater attention these days to the growing number of report cards and other publicly available comparable data that show where their facilities stand vis-à-vis the competition.
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If all hospitals met the quality standards for five high-risk surgeries set by the Washington, DC-based Leapfrog Group, it would save nearly 8,000 lives each year, according to a new study from the University of Michigan (UM) Health System in Ann Arbor.
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An international group of researchers has created a risk-predicting tool that enables clinicians to calculate the chances that a particular patient will die within six months of going home from the hospital after a heart attack or unstable angina episode. Their work was detailed in an article in the June 9, 2004, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
