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Nurses Call for OSHA Regulation as Pandemic Takes Bitter Toll
The continuing onslaught of COVID-19 is decimating the ranks of U.S. healthcare workers, leading to calls for OSHA to issue an infectious disease standard requiring employers to protect medical staff.
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Uncertainty on Auths Means Anxiety for Patients, Registrars
Many health plans waived some authorization requirements during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the actual effect on revenue is unclear.
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Tiny Differences in Health Plans Cause Huge Problems
Registrars contend with dozens of health plans, some of which are almost exactly alike. Those details mean entire claims are denied.
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Self-Serve Registration Options Continue to Evolve
Until recently, many hospitals were looking for ways to increase self-serve registration kiosks use. Priorities have changed, or at least expanded.
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Registrars See More ‘Junk’ Plans, Which Offer Little or No Coverage
Three million people were enrolled in short-term limited duration insurance in 2019, a 27% increase from the previous year.
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Insurance Coverage Data Show Stalled Progress on Racial Disparities
Overall progress has largely stalled, and even eroded, since 2016.
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Many Skeptical Patients Do Meet Financial Assistance Criteria
Millions of people are uninsured, unemployed, and unable to pay their hospital bills. Patient access is stepping in to offer all kinds of help.
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Decline in Medicare Readmissions Likely Not Caused by Reduction Program
Results of a comprehensive study, analyzing more than 6 million Medicare admissions, revealed declining 30-day hospital readmissions from 2009 to 2014. Some policymakers have attributed the decline to the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program, introduced in 2010. But researchers found the declining readmissions also could be explained by declining hospital admission rates over the same period.
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Case Study: Small-Town Hospital Adopted Telemedicine
Two years ago, Dosher Memorial Hospital was losing one of its three hospitalists. This small-town hospital in Southport, NC, needed to fill the slot quickly, which had never been easy. Yet without that hospitalist, there would be no overnight coverage.