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It is possible that the increased preventative care provided by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) could even reduce the number of patients seeking emergent or late-term medical care, thereby reducing medical malpractice claims, but that situation is far from certain, says James Ron Kennedy, MHA, ARM, AIC, vice president for risk management and patient safety at Louisiana Medical Mutual Insurance Co. (LAMMICO) in Metairie.
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IT security is becoming more important in healthcare every day, but the old ways of educating employees and physicians on this topic are insufficient, say leading IT security experts. Risk managers should consider entirely revamping the way IT security is taught and monitored, they say.
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News: In 2007, a woman in labor was given oxytocin to help speed up her delivery and increase the frequency and intensity of her contractions.
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Many adverse events in hospitals are never reported to state adverse event reporting systems, according to a recent report by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS OIG).
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News: On Nov. 26, 2006, a 49-year-old man from Howard Beach, NY, underwent a heart transplant at a New York City hospital. Less than a week later, on Dec. 2, 2006, the patients new heart suffered a massive hemorrhage.
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Healthcare reform makes processes for insurance verification a top priority for patient access areas, says Sebrena Johnson, manager of insurance verification and precertification in the Admission Services Department at Cone Health System in Greensboro, NC.
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Your patient access department already might have a discount policy in place, but this policy doesnt do anything to help a patient unless he or she is aware of it.
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Patient access departments need to prepare for a great increase in the volume of patients who are eligible not only for Medicaid, but also private insurance policies, as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) according to Luis Guerrero, director of patient access services at Ochsner Baptist Medical Center in New Orleans.
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Self-pay accounts receivable (A/R) was reduced by about $15 million annually after the patient access department at Geisinger Health System in Danville, PA, implemented daily eligibility checking of self-pay accounts against Medicare and Medicaid to find instances in which patients had coverage for that particular date of service.
