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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Advisory Panel on ambulatory payment classification (APC) groups has recommended that CMS not finalize the proposal to implement observation packaging for 2008, as CMS had originally proposed.
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In findings that at first glance may seem puzzling, the 2007 ED Pulse Report patient satisfaction survey by Press Ganey Associates indicated that while ED wait times continue to increase, so does patient satisfaction.
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The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General (OIG) has responded to a request for an advisory opinion on the on-call coverage and uncompensated care arrangement established by an unnamed not-for-profit medical center.
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The advisory opinion recently issue by the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General (OIG) in response to a hospital with an existing on-call coverage payment arrangement "has played into the hands of on-call specialists," ...
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Searching for various forms needed for patients being admitted from the ED was a constant frustration for nurses at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis.
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In a Sept. 5, 2007, revision of its accreditation participation requirement for concerns about hospital safety and quality of care, The Joint Commission specifically stated that physicians and medical staff members who have such concerns "may report those concerns with the understanding that retaliatory disciplinary action is prohibited."
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The Joint Commission has proposed standards revisions that could weaken infection control programs "significantly at a time when health care-associated infections (HAIs) are receiving increasing attention by legislators, payers, and consumers," ...
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In last year's report on the 2006 ED Management Salary Survey, we noted that while there was a shortage of ED nurses and physicians, compensation for ED directors and managers had failed to reflect that shortage.
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Increasingly, the anesthesia department is directing guidelines and training requirements for procedural sedation in hospitals, including the ED.
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There are two major liability risks associated with training requirements for procedural sedation: Failing to adhere to your organization's criteria, or having criteria inconsistent with accepted medical practice.
