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By all accounts, obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that more than 44 million Americans are considered obese, with body mass index scores of 30 or greater.
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Gastric-bypass surgery is all the rage these days, but rehabilitation can play a key role in reducing the complications of obesity without resorting to surgery.
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Imagine a scenario in which a patient dies from a medication error and then things just go downhill from there. As things get worse and worse, the only good thing is that youre bound to learn something useful from the experience.
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The latest survey of 631 providers, payers, companies, and clearinghouses by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) indicates that only half had completed testing for the Transaction and Code Standards (TCS), which standardized what information must be contained in electronic claims and how it should be transmitted.
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Health care is evolving, and managers must evolve with it, says Karen McKinley, RN, CHAM, vice president of patient access and care management for Geisinger Health System in Danville, PA.
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Where plaintiffs once focused entirely on the settlement amount, even when they had heartfelt grievances, todays plaintiffs are much more likely to demand that you change whatever they think led to their tragedies.
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When two medical tragedies struck Susan Sheridans family, one of her responses was typical and, most would say, entirely justified. She contacted an attorney and sued the health care providers for malpractice. But Sheridan took a different path from most plaintiffs by focusing more on quality improvement than the amount of money in the settlements.
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At Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield, case managers are a vital component of the companys Dr. Dean Ornish Program for Reversing Heart Disease.
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The Dr. Dean Ornish Program for Reversing Heart Disease is a dramatic lifestyle change for most people who have coronary artery disease or are at risk for the condition.
