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In this first part of a two-part series on outsourcing your coding, billing, and collections, we discuss how to determine whether to outsource. In next months issue, we provide billing benchmarks and tips on how to get paid by insurance companies.
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Less pain. Quicker recovery. These are the two reasons minimally invasive surgery has been touted as an improvement over traditional surgery. However, minimally invasive surgery is not always the best choice for a positive long-term outcome in hernia repair, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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State licensure regulations, Medicare regulations, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requirements, and accreditation survey preparation can make some same-day surgery managers feel as if most of their job is compliance oversight.
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Staying on top of legislative and regulatory rules that affect their operations is a constant challenge for same-day surgery managers. One way managers can keep abreast of changes is through regulatory and legislative updates posted on the web site of the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) in Wilmette, IL.
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So youve worked long and hard at putting an effective plan in place to respond to emergency incidents, and your feel youre as prepared as you can possibly be. Then, the attorney general comes on the TV and says theres an increased threat of a terrorist attack as we approach the fall presidential campaign, and we all need to be better prepared. You look at the tube in frustration and say, But Ive done everything I can! . . . But have you?
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Do you want to dramatically improve ED communication? Try this innovative idea: two-way radios.
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Want to cut your diversion hours down to zero? Thats exactly what Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian in Newport Beach, CA, has done by instituting its emergency saturation triage, or Code EST. When Code EST was implemented in July 2000, diversion hours were about 130 monthly.
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An ED doctor on a SWAT team? Its not as crazy as it sounds. If you visited Augusta, GA, youd see it all the time. For the past several years, the department of emergency medicine at the Medical College of Georgia has had a thriving Tactical Emergency Medicine Support (TEMS) program that includes a formal working relationship with three local SWAT teams.
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How would you like to cut your blood chemistry and cardiac screening times from 90 minutes down to 20? Well, thats exactly what the ED at Saint Joseph Hospital in Lexington, KY, did by introducing point-of-care (POC) testing.