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Carefully constructed contract language might help shift some liability to the staffing agency when contracted employees divert drugs or otherwise harm patients, says R. Stephen Trosty, JD, MHA, CPHRM, president of Risk Management Consulting in Haslett, MI, and a past president of the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management in Chicago.
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Patients released from one hospital and readmitted to another within 30 days are more likely to die within the next month than those readmitted to the same hospital, according to a study from Canada.
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In this matter, the patient was an elderly 73-year-old woman who had suffered a fall at her home in September 2005.
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Patient access leaders at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston created a visual tool in 2013 to help staff to determine the correct payer.
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Due to changes resulting from the Affordable Care Act, patient access departments need revamped processes to prevent the following: claims denials, increased wait times, and patient dissatisfaction.
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Are uninsured patients billed at a higher rate than insured patients?
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Previously, all financial counseling at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle was done on the hospitals main campus. It wasnt offered at the organizations seven outpatient medical clinics.
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Hospitals bad debt is expected to increase due to such factors as higher out-of-pocket costs and failure of patients to pay plan premiums. Patient access can minimize bad debt by doing the following:
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Patient access departments are moving the financial counseling process to the point of scheduling and helping providers to address patients concerns about the cost of care.
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As the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) continues its emphasis on discharge planning, its more important than ever to create a comprehensive discharge plan that provides everything patients need to manage in the next level of care, some experts say.