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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends indicators to measure improvement in adherence to hand-hygiene guidelines.
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Health care workers may be at risk for reproductive disorders and cancer due to improper handling of hazardous drugs in hospitals.
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Acquiring a health care organization means acquiring its fraud and abuse liabilities, and limiting that risk is no easy task, says Joseph Truhe, general counsel at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, CA.
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The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments next month on the issue of whether municipal entities are immune from False Claims Act (FCA) suits brought by qui tam relators. The outcome could have a significant impact on state and local hospitals.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is warning providers that they must use new Advance Beneficiary Notice (ABN) forms in connection with claims submitted for reimbursement under Medicare Part B.
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As compliance officers assume a higher-profile role in hospitals, their personal liability also is increasing. However, specific techniques and strategies can minimize that liability, not necessarily at the expense of their employer.
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It doesnt matter whether a natural disaster, an accreditation survey, or simply the growing avalanche of files prompt a hospitals HIM department to plan a major clean-up of medical records, because there are certain strategies that can make this job easier and more efficient.
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Imagine daring to take a look at your hospitals dungeon where a decade or more of medical records are stored and then deciding to clean up the mess as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible.
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Too often, a physicians charts will stop at the word hypertension, leaving the details for coders to obtain through careful detective work.
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The Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recently approved a plan that calls for smallpox immunization of 510,000 health care workers.