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Case managers are in an excellent position to help their hospitals balance both the clinical and the financial sides of patient care, asserts Teresa C. Fugate, RN, BBA, CPHQ, CCM.
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Before the case management staff at Davis Memorial Hospital in Elkins, WV, went live with its newly designed case management plan, staff worked hard to sell the new arrangement to hospital staff and attending physicians.
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When the administration at Davis Memorial Hospital in Elkins, WV, redesigned its case management department, improving reimbursement for emergency department (ED) patients and same-day-surgery patients was a major goal.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued infection control guidance for managing people in the health care setting and in the community who may be infected with the monkey pox virus. In a late June news briefing, a CDC official said the agency was investigating 33 cases of possible human infection with the virus in Wisconsin, Indiana, and Illinois.
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Nursing standing orders for ED patients with stroke symptoms at Community Medical Center in Toms River, NJ.
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Do stroke patients in your emergency department (ED) always receive a computed tomography (CT) scan within 25 minutes, and do you have results within 45 minutes? If not, you're not following recommended time frames for stroke care - a scenario commonly occurring in community EDs, according to a just-published study.
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When Millie Brown, a former manager in the billing department at Children's Health Care of Atlanta, became director of patient access at the hospital about two years ago, it was natural that she would look for opportunities for improvement in the quality of registration data.
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Your reimbursement will change dramatically when nationally uniform facility assessment criteria are implemented by Medicare, probably in January 2004, predicts Caral Edelberg, CPC, CCS-P, president of Medical Management Resources in Jacksonville, FL. This will be huge news for the ED, she predicts.
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Save up to $700,000 by making this change
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It happens in every ED: Patients with difficult line access are stuck multiple times some as many as 10-15 times in an attempt to access an intravenous (IV) line.