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To provide you with critical information on the updated regulations from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Thomson American Health Consultants offers "New EMTALA Regulations: Are They Too Good to be True?" an audio conference on Tuesday, Oct. 21, from 2:30-3:30 p.m., EST.
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When the training and data quality staff took over the competency assessment of patient access employees at Milwaukee-based Aurora Health Care, they added a little regional flair to the process. A competency fair, inspired by Wisconsins popular state fair, replaced the previous practice of having supervisors with checklists review critical functions and material with individual registrars.
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These highlights of the final EMTALA rule were summarized by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
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Question: Is it true that we can violate EMTALA by not encouraging a patient to stay for treatment when he wants to leave?
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The emphasis by Milwaukee-based Aurora Health Cares training and data quality team on making sure registrars were well acquainted with the systems process for preventing identity fraud paid off recently.
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With patient safety a heightened imperative from Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, and facing its own duplicate medical record problem, Truman Medical Center in Kansas City, MO, launched an initiative aimed at ensuring proper patient identification.
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Recent guidance by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act transactions standards did not go far enough, says the American Hospital Association, which has urged CMS to respond to what the AHA calls critical issues that have not been addressed.
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When an explosion happened at a nearby bean processing plant, the good news was that Mercy Medical Center in Sioux City, IA, was ready to handle the eight injured workers brought in for treatment.
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It was pretty close to business as usual for New York Presbyterian Hospital during the electrical blackout that hit a large swath of the northeastern United States in August 2003, but with one important realization gained: The information systems department was located too far from the main campus.
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New regulations regarding the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act notwithstanding, patient access managers continue to seek clarity on exactly how much registration activity may take place in the emergency department before a patients treatment is completed.
