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States are beginning to grapple with questions coming out the last years Affordable Care Ace (ACA) Supreme Court decision on. While the court upheld most of the law, it struck down the mandatory expansion of the Medicaid program.
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A green light process saves patients from waiting for long periods to obtain diagnostic tests, reports Tanya Powell, patient access director at Ochsner Medical Center North Shore in Slidell, LA. We strive to prep our cases three days in advance. Once prepped, we call to pre-register our patients over the phone, she says.
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When a patient asks for an urgent appointment at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, the answer is never no, says Pamela Nettles-Gomez, business operations manager of internal medicine and adult primary care.
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Members of the patient access staff were trained along with clinical personnel before a novel new program was offered to patients at Downtown Health Plaza of Wake Forest Baptist Health in Winston-Salem, NC.
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Government auditors emphasized the need for hospital network security in the February issues of The New England Journal of Medicine.
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About a dozen patient access employees a year take the Certified Healthcare Access Associate (CHAA) examination at University of Utah Health Care in Salt Lake City, and only two have n65ot passed in the past five years.
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A rapid response model for ethics consultations in the emergency department (ED) was developed at The Ottawa Hospital in Ontario, Canada, using terminology that ED clinicians familiar with rapid response teams can relate to.
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Virtually any predictive test that can be done on an adult can be done on a minor, from tests for Huntingtons disease to breast and ovarian cancer to schizophrenia, but the question is not whether we can, but whether we should, says John Lantos, MD, director of the Childrens Mercy Bioethics Center in Kansas City, MO.