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Patients Want Good Answers on Cost of Care
Price-shopping patients are not interested in gross charges that do not take their individual insurance into account. Read how one department created a tool that provides tailored, detailed estimates.
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Despite Many Challenges, Patient Access Manages to Retain Staff
A career ladder and a sense of purpose might convince registrars to stick around.
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Stop Surprise Bills by Identifying Out-of-Network Status Much Earlier
Identify any out-of-network providers as early as possible while there is time to do something about it. Hospitals should be sure payor networks are aligned, and that nobody who is out of network with the coverage is going to end up caring for the patient.
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Observation Status Is Issue in Claims Denials
Patient access should be documenting the true severity of a patient’s illness on day two or three of hospitalization. By that time, there is an actual diagnosis to support the need for admission.
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Physicians, Patients Rarely Discuss Cost: Registrars Can Help
A lack of knowledge and a discomfort discussing money leads everyone to steer conversations in other directions.
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Lawmakers Broker Agreement to End Surprise Billing
Bipartisan compromise was included in latest COVID-19 relief package.
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DSMBs Have Helped Advance Safe, Effective HIV/AIDS Research
Data safety monitoring boards (DSMBs) have played a big role in helping the most effective and safe HIV therapies advance.
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Data Safety Monitoring Boards Were Quietly Behind the Scenes, but No More
DSMBs have been an essential fabric of clinical trials in recent decades, but until 2020, their work largely was under the public radar.
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OHRP Looks Back at its First 20 Years
IRB Advisor asked OHRP to look back since its launch in June 2000 to see how human research protections has evolved.
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20 Years of Reports on Research Protection
To commemorate the past 20 years of human research protection, as well as two decades of IRB Advisor, we asked editorial advisory board members to comment on how things have changed since 2001.