-
The Medical Center of Central Georgia in Macon was an early adopter of registration kiosks, says Jane Gray, CPA, FACHE, FHFMA, assistant vice president for the revenue cycle.
-
The H1N1 influenza pandemic might prompt lasting changes in the personal protective equipment for healthcare workers and the rules that govern them.
-
Do you need to gear up for an accreditation survey in a short amount of time?
-
With Medicare's 2009 change in the definition of an ambulatory surgery center (ASC), the door opened for keeping patients up to 23 hours and 59 minutes.
-
Ten years ago, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued its revised Bloodborne Pathogens (BBP) Standard.
-
Question: As a consultant, you specialize in helping ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) get in compliance with accreditation and licensing.
-
If your block booking of procedures is working for you great! You are one of the few. Pat yourself on the back, and go have lunch. If, however, you are among the majority of us, read on.
-
It is notoriously difficult to convince surgeons to change their methods and tools in the operating room to improve sharps safety.
-
Now that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a proposed rule that would prohibit payment for healthcare-acquired conditions for Medicaid beneficiaries, it's more important than ever that case managers work with physicians to ensure that conditions that are present on admission are clearly documented in every patient's chart, says Deborah Hale, CCS, president of Administrative Consultant Services, a health care consulting firm based in Shawnee, OK.
-
When Ocean Medical Center in Brick, NJ, and Meridian At Home care agency collaborated on a remote monitoring program for heart failure patients, the readmission rate for heart failure dropped from 14.93% before the program began to 4.84% in the first eight months of the pilot program.
