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The Society for Healthcare Consumer Advocacy, part of the American Health Association, has developed a document outlining when a patient issue should be categorized as a grievance under Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regulations.
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News: Unable to care for herself, a Parkinsons disease patient contracted for services provided in her home, including meal preparation. One day, the home health company was short-staffed and subcontracted with a temporary personnel agency to care for the patient.
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The privacy regulations enacted as part of the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) have caused some unforeseen complications for hospitals trying to ensure patient safety and improve communication between providers and patients, say health care professionals and legal experts.
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The summer 2003 Industry HIPAA survey conducted by HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) and Phoenix Health Systems found that not enough time was seen as the major roadblock to meeting the Oct. 16 implementation deadline for transactions and code sets (T&CS).
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One of the hottest sessions at the recent meeting of the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management in Nashville, TN, addressed the recently issued final rule for the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act.
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You might think youve done enough root-cause analyses that theyre old hat by now and you can just cruise through the process. If so, youre probably making common mistakes that create inconclusive analyses that fall short of addressing the problem.
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One of the best methods for eliminating costly back injuries in health care settings is to stop lifting patients. No lifting equals no back injuries, the experts say.
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Incomes are up slightly for health care risk managers this year, but you may be staying much later at the office.
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A 70-year-old man went to the emergency department complaining of shortness of breath. Although chest X-rays showed a suspicious mass in his left lung, physicians did not notify him or his primary care doctor. Nine months later, when he returned to the hospital complaining of shortness of breath, physicians discovered the man had lung cancer. A jury awarded the patient and his wife more than $2.8 million.
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Risk managers have struggled for a long time to interpret the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, but the recent release of the final rule promised to clear up a great deal of disagreement and differing takes on what the law requires. Some of that promise was fulfilled, but there still is plenty of room to worry about what EMTALA really means, say legal experts who continue to study the law for its many nuances.
