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Physicians are continuing to adopt electronic health records (EHRs) at a steady pace.
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Patient access employees are under-compensated at many organizations, and salaries don't reflect the expanded role of patient access, according to revenue cycle experts.
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Patient access departments need technology to determine patient liability, propensity to pay, and eligibility to enroll in health plans available on the exchanges.
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Patient access leaders at Florida Hospital cut denials to only .08%, and wrote off $1.9 million in 2012 compared with $4.5 million in 2002.
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Too often, ED staff dont report violence due to onerous reporting processes, according to Terry Kowalenko, MD, clinical associate professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor. Research suggests that violent incidents occurring in EDs are far more frequent than statistics reveal.1-3
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Diagnostic errors are the most common, most costly, and most deadly medical errors, according to a recent analysis of 25 years of malpractice payouts from the National Practitioner Data Bank.1
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Consent to an intervention or treatment is generally implied when a patient comes to the ED, but there are some exceptions to this, according to Andrew H. Koslow, MD, JD, an assistant clinical professor of emergency medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, MA, and an emergency physician (EP) at Steward Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton, MA.
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All across the country, states, hospital associations, communities, and emergency departments (EDs) are attempting to deal with the growing incidence of prescription pain medication abuse, overdoses, and deaths.1 Opioid pain medications now kill more Americans than cocaine and heroin combined, and over the past five years, there have been more drug-induced deaths than motor vehicle accident deaths.2
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"Churn when otherwise-eligible Medicaid beneficiaries are disenrolled and re-enrolled in the program is a frequent problem and will continue to be so under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), according to Benjamin D. Sommers, MD, PhD, assistant professor of health policy and economics at Harvard School of Public Health in Boston.