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When the Supreme Court released its opinion upholding the bulk of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) at the end of June, most of the commentary focused on what the law would mean to consumers.
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Imagine going more than two years nearing three without a single hospital-acquired infection (HAI) in your intensive care unit (ICU).
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Do you want a department that provides patient-centered registration, achieves excellent outcomes, and works well with colleagues in the clinical services you support?
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New way to present privacy and security info
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Tenet Healthcare Corp. has agreed to pay the United States $42.75 million to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by overbilling the federal Medicare program, the Justice Department has announced.
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South Shore Hospital in Boston has agreed to pay $750,000 to resolve allegations that it failed to protect the personal and confidential health information of more than 800,000 consumers, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley announced recently.
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The California Department of Insurance has saved doctors and other medical providers $23 million in just two months by reducing unjustified medical malpractice insurance premiums using the state's prior approval rate regulation authority.
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Telemedicine is becoming more common all the time, but risk managers might not be keeping up with all the new challenges that come along with the new technology. The use of telemedicine across state lines, in particular, raises some tricky risk management issues.