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Recent guidance from the Department of Health and Human Services recognizes that a good-faith determination of financial need may vary depending on the individual patients circumstances and that hospitals should have flexibility to take into account relevant variables.
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The California Healthcare Association (CHA) has adopted a new set of voluntary guidelines on financial aid, charity care, and discount payments for its member hospitals, including a recommendation that hospitals provide financial assistance for patients at or below 300% of the poverty level.
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Hospitals wishing to protect themselves from EMTALA-related complaints and the scrutiny follows are well advised to embrace the growing trend toward bedside registration, suggests Peggy Nakamura, RN, MBA, JD, assistant vice president, chief risk officer and associate counsel for Sacramento, CA-based Adventist Health.
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As the University of California, Davis, Health System goes forward with the successful implementation of its preadmission discharge planning and utilization review program, Karen A. Warne, RN, manager for patient services and transfer center, keeps in mind a next step toward seamless patient access.
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New statistics from the Chicago-based American College of Surgeons National Trauma Data Bank report have strong implications for your ED. The reports findings are based on more than 1.1 million records from 405 trauma centers in 43 states.
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If you grabbed the wrong medication for just a moment before catching your error, would you complete a detailed incident report? What if the near miss would have been life-threatening for your patient?
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The statistics are chilling: 50% of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) patients die before reaching the ED, and perioperative mortality for patients who do reach the ED ranges from 50%-90%.
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A new analysis of worldwide evidence on the possible relation between breast cancer and previous spontaneous and induced abortions reaffirms earlier findings that pregnancies that end in abortion do not increase a womans risk of developing breast cancer.
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The new World Health Organization (WHO) Medical Eligibility Criteria (MEC) for Contraceptive Use are being released this spring. The changes made will dramatically affect the provision of contraceptives throughout the world. These are the 10 recommendations that have changed the most.
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In addition to starting earlier than usual, the 2003-2004 flu season was especially hard on the pediatric population, with several deaths occurring among children in Texas and Colorado. As a result, the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention requested that states report influenza-associated pediatric deaths, with 152 influenza-associated deaths in children reported by 40 states.
