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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) once again has changed the requirements for physician supervision, always an area of contention and confusion, in its proposed 2011 outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) rule.
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Requirements for credentialing and privileging telemedicine providers are up in the air for now, following the May 26 release of a proposed rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
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Chief medical officer and executive vice president at Golden, CO-based HealthGrades, Samantha Collier, MD, MBA, is changing hats and moving inhouse.
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Probably the most incendiary change in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) rule for 2011 is an ultimate reduction in hospital payments.
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According to many stakeholders of the hospital-based inpatient psychiatric services (HBIPS) core measure set, it's been a long time coming.
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Equipment, supplies often unavailable in life-threatening emergencySupplies that were the incorrect size. Missing items. Empty oxygen tanks. Drained batteries on equipment. Unstocked or unlocked crash carts.
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Retained items in surgery are a constant risk in the OR, and there still is no perfect solution. The best strategy is to combine more than one prevention method and tailor the effort to the particular type of surgery, experts say.
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A benchmarking report on some of the major causes of surgical malpractice cases has provided information that hospital quality managers and risk managers can use to improve performance and reduce adverse events.