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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) recently announced that it will revise the fixed and variable performance areas evaluated during random unannounced surveys, starting in 2004.
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News: A man was admitted to a hospital after presenting to the emergency department (ED) with chest pain. After an initial cardiac catheterization revealed serious coronary disease, open-heart surgery was performed.
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At the Seventh HIPAA Summit held in Baltimore in mid-September, Doctor HIPAA former Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) executive William Braithwaite said that while Transactions and Code Sets (T&CS) testing should have started in April at the latest, vendors should have provided software to all their clients and completed testing, clearinghouses should have finished testing for all customers, and health plans should have finished testing all transactions with providers and clearinghouses, the reality was that much of the testing still was being done and some entities hadnt yet started.
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With surveys indicating that the required Oct. 16 compliance with transaction and code sets (T&CS) HIPAA requirements would be spotty at best, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has drawn industry support for deciding to implement its contingency plan and accept legacy claims for an undetermined period of time while efforts toward full compliance continue.
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In testimony before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, the president of the American Clinical Laboratory Association (ACLA) said that although labs are committed to compliance with the transaction standards, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) needs to provide more specific guidance to assist providers struggling with implementation and also must streamline the mechanisms for development and maintenance of the transaction standards.
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Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights director Richard Campanelli says that many covered entities have done a good job of coming into compliance with the HIPAA privacy requirements that took effect in April, although there remain some misunderstandings about the requirements that need to be cleared up.
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Youre busy with a dozen other issues when you get a phone call notifying you that a visitor has fallen in the lobby and broken her arm. Do you chalk it up to just another fall and get back to work, or do you spring into action?
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New reporting options from the Joint Com-mission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) are a good step forward in the effort to prevent the disclosure of sensitive information through the accreditation process, says an attorney who is responding to the concerns of risk managers.
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A claimant alleged that she had developed a severely infected finger that required surgical drainage and intravenous antibiotics following a manicure with dirty implements at a beauty salon located on the hospital campus.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has accepted a corrective action plan from Duke University Hospital in Durham, NC, to ensure safety in the hospitals intensive care nursery (ICN).
