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A four-judge Texas Court of Appeals panel has ruled the state Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation must release statistics about alleged sexual assaults at state mental hospitals ...
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Providence Health System's charity care and financial assistance policies are "fair, just, and reasonable," according to a Multnomah County Circuit judge who gave final approval to the settlement of a class-action lawsuit.
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Patient access staff at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center-Presbyterian in Philadelphia scheduled a New Year's Eve party at the end of June as a way of celebrating their achievements during the just-ended fiscal year.
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After Texas Health Resources (THR) was formed in 1997 from the merger of Fort Worth-based Harris Methodist Health System and Dallas-based Presbyterian Healthcare Resources, a series of councils was created to help foster "systemness."
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While the majority of health care facilities continue to essentially be in compliance with HIPAA privacy and security regulations, the number that consider themselves more than 85% compliant with the privacy regulation has dropped in the last year.
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Access staff at Memorial Hospital, a small, rural facility, face more than the usual challenge in ensuring that there's enough information to successfully bill patients.
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Blount Memorial in Maryville, TN, is working with QualPro, the Knoxville, TN-based company that developed the MVT process, on a six-month project focusing on its emergency department (ED) and operating rooms.
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A major consideration with the increase in consumer-driven health plans is that patients are likely to want to know more about what they now are paying for.
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Access departments are likely to see an increasing number of patients with some version of what is known as a consumer-driven health plan (CDHP).
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Three million fewer workers elected to enroll in their employer's health insurance plan between 1998 and 2003; and The (IRS) has begun sending tax-exempt hospitals a compliance check questionnaire seeking information about their operations.