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Health care workers need an annual influenza vaccine to protect themselves and their patients, advise national infection control officials.
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As the newly hired patient financial services director at St. Helena Hospital in Deer Park, CA, Kim Meredith was ready to put her focus on reducing the institutions denial rate.
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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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As facilities face increasing workloads that leave less time to pursue unpaid claims and collections, an increasing number are turning to outsourcing as a solution.
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A patients record is invariably going to be with a health care provider far longer than the patient will be. How facilities handle records retention what records they keep, in what format theyre stored, and for how long varies from state to state, by specialty, and sometimes, by accreditation regulations.
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Hospitals and health care workers have gone to great effort to understand the patient privacy rules, but more needs to be done to educate the public, according to some health care providers.
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Fewer than one-quarter of rehab hospitals responding to a recent survey believe they will be able to comply with the 75% rehab rule during the three-year transition period; more than 40% will be turning patients away; and 14% said they expect to have to close their units or hospitals completely.
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In what appears to be a relatively crude attempt at domestic bioterrorism, ground-up remnants of castor beans were found in two baby food jars in Irvine, CA.
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In the wake of a bioterrorism attack requiring the release of the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS), local planners will have to set up points of distribution (PODs) for antibiotics and other medicinal interventions.
