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The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) has issued a proposed rule that would amend the safe harbors to the anti-kickback statute and the civil monetary penalty (CMP) rules to protect certain payment practices and business arrangements from criminal prosecution or civil sanction.
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The patient, an adult man, was scheduled for a standard cataract surgery in 2008 on his left eye. During the procedure, the ophthalmologist ordered a dye named VisionBlue that is used to stain the cataract in the eye so that it can be more easily visualized and removed during the surgery. However, although the ophthalmologist ordered the correct dye, the nurse who fulfilled the request instead brought methylene blue rather than the correct VisionBlue.
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They speak a different language, and the lore in society is they are completely otherworldly, but engineers may be the missing tool in you quality toolbox, the thing that makes you see a problem in a novel way, approach its solution differently.
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A hundred hospitals have joined a new system to track needlesticks and other healthcare injuries, the first such national surveillance since 2007.
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When the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced that it would offer 68% payment for organizations that would drop their appeals with a deadline of acceptance of November 2, many wondered who might accept the terms.
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Monitoring patients’ hearts with telemetry seems innocuous enough. It’s not invasive, and it’s an extra pair of eyes keeping track of a key vital function.
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when you thought you were getting a handle on reducing readmissions for your Medicare population, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has another task for you: Look at your Medicaid readmissions, because you may find that those patients are bouncing back in at least the same quantity as your older patients.
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Observation status has been under the radar for a while, and with the two-midnight rule in full force, getting patients to the right place on a ward or discharged appropriately has taken on new urgency.
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It’s an intuitive truth that makes sense to just about anyone who hears it: If you are having a procedure done, you want to go to someone who has a lot of experience doing that procedure.
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Even if patient access employees follow all the necessary steps to obtain an authorization for a procedure, the payer might still want to talk to another person before granting the authorization: the patient’s physician.
