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The state of New York has taken a step toward ensuring consistency in the provision of language assistance services to hospital patients with limited English proficiency (LEP).
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While the impact of new hospital billing forms will be felt more by the business office than the front end, access personnel also should be aware of the change, since the information they collect feeds into the billing system.
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Failure to adequately prepare for the advent of the National Provider Identifier (NPI) will have a significant impact on provider reimbursement.
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Patients' right to freedom of choice of providers has been a source of continuing conflict, especially between hospitals and post-acute providers not owned by or affiliated with hospitals -- so-called freestanding providers.
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A pilot program under way in Tucson, AZ, aims to direct uninsured patients who show up for care in the hospital emergency department to a nearby primary and specialty care clinic where they can find an ongoing medical home, says Nancy Johnson, RN, PhD(c), executive director of St. Elizabeth of Hungary Clinic.
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A biometrics pilot project at Harris Methodist Fort Worth Hospital was virtually seamless in terms of staff training and patient participation and showed great potential for reducing fraud and enhancing customer service.
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News reports in recent months tell of computers with data on Medicare and Medicaid patients being stolen from a health system's regional office and a former hospital worker charged with fraud and identity theft for accessing and selling patient files.
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Almost all hospitals support the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in moving forward with a pay-for-performance program over the next few years.
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The Department of Health and Human Services published the final enforcement rule for all HIPAA Administrative Simplification rules with an effective date of March 16, 2006.
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A woman who fell and was injured in the parking lot of a medical center after arriving for an appointment had no claim against the hospital under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), ...