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As the Oct. 16 deadline for covered entities to comply with HIPAAs electronic code set and transaction provisions approaches, organizations should be intensifying their efforts toward achieving compliance, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
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CMS makes changes to MSP regulations; Hospital credit downgrades said to be on the increase; Critical focus areas for random JCAHO surveys; Bedside patient education offered by Most Wired
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Although the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act does not create a private right to sue health care workers who leak information, state laws do, says Stephen A. Frew, JD, a web site publisher and risk management consultant for Physicians Insurance Co. of Wisconsin in Madison. More importantly, Frew adds in a recent report, HIPAA probably will come to be the standard of care for these state actions.
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With growing scrutiny nationwide of how hospitals bill and collect payments from their uninsured patients, access managers and their bosses are taking a look at their self-pay policies and reflecting on how this trend will affect revenue management strategies.
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Not content to rest on their laurels after implementation of a cutting-edge outpatient tracking system, Parrish Medical Center patient registration manager Linda Lilleboe, RN, MSN, and business office director Christine Rich, MHA, are looking toward future enhancements of the process.
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Presented with the opportunity to revamp outpatient registration in conjunction with the opening of a beautiful new facility, Parrish Medical Center patient registration manager Linda Lilleboe, RN, MSN, and business office director Christine Rich MHA, faced more than the usual challenges.
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It has happened to everyone. A quality improvement (QI) project team is formed to achieve an improvement goal, and the group gets sidetracked on the action plan. This can happen when members of the team dont share the same sense of clarity around the problem.
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Editors note: This column is a regular feature in Hospital Peer Review profiling a facility that recently has been surveyed by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
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Are you relieved to find that six of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations seven new National Patient Safety Goals are much the same as for 2003? If so, you should think again.