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Health Privacy Project executive director Janlori Goldman said that while many glitches and misinterpretations of the HIPAA privacy regulation have been resolved, others remain and should be addressed by the Department of Health and Human Services or Congress.
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Study: Growth slows in health care spending; OIG seeks proposals for safe-harbor provisions; AHA survey shows hospital use rising; CMS publishes quality survey tool
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Access departments are playing with fire if they dont consistently obtain consent for treatment before treatment is given, emphasizes Susan Baxley, corporate admitting manager for Sacramento, CA-based Adventist Health System.
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Its easy to make the case that many administrative transactions health organizations routinely handle in-house can be done better, faster, and more cost-effectively by outside vendors. Yet less than 1% of health organizations outsource all of their revenue cycle processes.
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If the front end would just get it right when the patient first comes in . . . goes the refrain from billers, or the CFO, or some other party focused on putting the blame for unreimbursed care at the feet of the access department. But when a substantial number of patients walk in without insurance coverage at the time of care or are emergency patients who dont have their insurance information with them, its not quite that simple.
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When it came to streamlining the way patients, referring physicians, and other interested parties contact Geisinger Health System in Danville, PA, for various access-related services, it seems that one good idea led to another.
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OSHA offers voluntary protection programs; NIOSH promotes healthy lifestyles for U.S. workers; Streamline documentation for outpatient education
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John George Psychiatric Pavilion in San Leandro, CA, has been fined $54,000 for failing to take adequate precautions to prevent violent assaults against its staff.
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It seems that a number of occ-health professionals are interested in going into business themselves so many, in fact, that Carol Santee, RN, COHN-RS, COM, owner/consultant, Tri-County Occupational Health Consultants in Cary, IL, teaches an entire course on the subject.
