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The patient, an adult man, was scheduled for a standard cataract surgery in 2008 on his left eye. During the procedure, the ophthalmologist ordered a dye named VisionBlue that is used to stain the cataract in the eye so that it can be more easily visualized and removed during the surgery. However, although the ophthalmologist ordered the correct dye, the nurse who fulfilled the request instead brought methylene blue rather than the correct VisionBlue.
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The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) has issued a proposed rule that would amend the safe harbors to the anti-kickback statute and the civil monetary penalty (CMP) rules to protect certain payment practices and business arrangements from criminal prosecution or civil sanction.
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Clinicians deal with plenty of dangerous substances and infectious diseases, but the idea of caring for an Ebola patient can make even the most dedicated nurse waver. When employees are reluctant to take on that task, risk managers must ensure that the hospital is not violating employment laws that might apply.
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When the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced that it would offer 68% payment for organizations that would drop their appeals with a deadline of acceptance of November 2, many wondered who might accept the terms.
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A hundred hospitals have joined a new system to track needlesticks and other healthcare injuries, the first such national surveillance since 2007.
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They speak a different language, and the lore in society is they are completely otherworldly, but engineers may be the missing tool in you quality toolbox, the thing that makes you see a problem in a novel way, approach its solution differently.
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Goals in patient access areas at Cincinnati (OH) Children’s Hospital Medical Center have three areas of focus: the patient’s and family’s satisfaction, finances, and compliance, says Michelle Gray, MHA, director of registration services.
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Most data breaches are fully preventable, and Beazley Breach Response (BBR) Services, an Atlanta company providing breach response insurance, offers these five ways to avoid them:
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Even if patient access employees follow all the necessary steps to obtain an authorization for a procedure, the payer might still want to talk to another person before granting the authorization: the patient’s physician.
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It’s an intuitive truth that makes sense to just about anyone who hears it: If you are having a procedure done, you want to go to someone who has a lot of experience doing that procedure.