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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has made a one-time offer to hospitals to settle pending appeals of patient status claim denials for 68% of the net payable amount.
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Many families spend more time and energy researching the best microwave oven to buy than they spend choosing a post-acute facility for their loved ones
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Before you can give patients the information they need to make a good decision, you need to know something about the facilities on the list you give the patients.
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The Medicare Conditions of Participation require hospitals to give patients a choice of post-acute providers, but that doesn’t mean that case managers shouldn’t give them the information they need to make informed choices.
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Montefiore Medical Center’s collaboration with five skilled nursing facilities on improving transitions has resulted in a drop in 30-day readmission rates to 15%.
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Patients will soon be able to check the influenza vaccination rates of health care workers at the nation’s hospitals through Hospitalcompare.gov, the website of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
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Expecting the unexpected: ‘The best managers are people who don’t lose that human touch.’ Whether it’s a rare flu epidemic like H1N1, a natural disaster or a major hospital technology overhaul, hospital employee health departments can just about predict the arrival of something unpredictable every year or two.
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Hospitals with solid organizational practices and policies, including better ergonomic practices, have lower injury rates among nurses, a new study finds.
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For the first time, conjugated monoclonal antibodies have been added to a list of drugs that pose an occupational hazard. The new cancer treatment targets tumors with deadly toxins – but also can produce some residue that could put health care workers at risk, safety experts caution.
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With 5.7 million workers employed in hospitals, population workforce aging trends are hitting the industry hard. The nursing and nursing aides’ shortages are combining with the demographic trend of older female employees — an average of 47 years for RNs — suggest that nurses and other health care workers will need to continue working into advanced age in the next decade.