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Hospital employee health professionals should consider using social media and Internet communications and campaigns to electronically promote safety and health for health care workers.
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While emphasizing that Ebola does not spread by the airborne route, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is advising in new infection control guidelines that health care workers wear N95 respirators or powered air purifying respirators (PAPRs) for treating patients stricken with the deadly virus.
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Most occupational health nurses learn about respiratory protection on the job. They may manage the program, but still have little time to train their hospitals employees about the difference between a mask and a respirator.
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Five years after the H1N1 flu pandemic, hospitals and public health authorities are dealing with a difficult aftermath: Stockpiles of N95 respirators are expiring. Rebuilding pandemic stockpiles could cost many millions of dollars and still might not provide enough protective devices.
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Most errors involving Medicare as a Secondary Payer Questionnaire (MSPQ) can be attributed to two things, according to Kevin Willis, director of Medicare Services in the Harrison, OH, office of Claim Services, a document retrieval company. Willis is a former Medicare Secondary Payer auditor.
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Sending the correct information to the insurance companies to show the medical need for services has become quite a task for patient access, says Aaron Robison, CHAA, a patient financial advocate at University of Utah Health Care in Salt Lake City.
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Patients are increasingly presenting with out-of-network coverage, due to more narrow networks in health plans. Patient access needs revamped processes to confirm eligibility, inform patients, and apply for patient-specific agreements.
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Although it is possible to keep training on Medicare as Secondary Payer (MSP) fairly simple, there are times when you need to stop, think, and ask a lot of questions, says Elizabeth Reason, MSA, CHAM, director of patient access for Cleveland County HealthCare System in Shelby, NC.
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In the past, the only way for patient access managers to develop productivity standards was through time studies, says Mark Sammartano, interim director of revenue cycle and managed care at Waterbury (CT) Hospital.
