Editor's note: This is the first of a two-part series that describe how two different agencies use nurse practitioners in their program.
Thirteen states and the District of Columbia will get more than $547 million in grants over five years to build Medicaid long-term care programs that will help keep people at home and out of institutions.
This study presents four cases, and offers recommendations should this unusual congenital defect be discovered at the time of laparoscopic gastric bypass.
Under newly revised interpretive guidelines from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for informed consent, hospitals are required to list all people performing "specific significant surgical tasks."
By creating inexpensive fever kits and providing them free of charge to parents of children between 3 months and 5 years of age who presented and were discharged, the ED at Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas has saved approximately $300,000 since the initial pilot program began in July 2004.
An adult patient arrives at the ED in the middle of the night with a presenting complaint of head trauma of unknown origin, and associated pain and dizziness.
In the wake of a first-of-its-kind settlement regarding the discharge of a homeless woman by a Kaiser Permanente hospital in Southern California, indications are that the disturbing issues it aims to address are far from unique.
Beginning July 2, hospitals must begin a new process of notifying Medicare beneficiaries of their discharge appeal rights.
