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Sometime in the next few years, your hospital could receive some of its Medicare reimbursement based on how well it performs, if the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) follows its typical course of action.
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Case managers will be invaluable to their hospitals if the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) institutes pay-for-performance measures for all hospitals, Teresa Fugate, RN, BBA, CPHQ, CCM, asserts.
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The National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care, a consortium of five palliative care organizations, has released a set of clinical practice guidelines to promote quality palliative care in the United States.
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Expansions in public health insurance programs are designed to offer a safety net to vulnerable Americans unable to obtain basic health insurance and regular access to medical care.
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Patients who participate in clinical trials not only have access to newer, experimental treatments, they also have access to more routine medical checkups and state-of-the-art technologies. Yet for many women, participation in medical research studies is still not an option.
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At many professional meetings and workshops, clinical trial investigators and coordinators crowd into presentations offering advice on recruiting and retaining women and minority subjects.
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While interest in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) research increases in the United States, there remain some significant challenges to properly designing these studies, an expert states.
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AMA wants all clinical trial results in database
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Would you like to be able to boast that your organization performed hundreds of surgeries without a single infection or reduced rates of surgical infections dramatically? By making specific process changes, these impressive results can be achieved.
