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Peer-to-peer Review Would Bring Serious Risks
Peer-to-peer hospital reviews have been proposed as a way to gauge quality and compliance without waiting for the hassle and the potential ramifications of an accreditation survey, but risk managers should carefully consider the potential problems that could arise.
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Health System Agrees to Restore Deleted Data in False Claims Act Lawsuit
In the case of United States of America et al. v. Bon Secours New York Health System, Inc., et al, a former compliance officer claims she was fired for trying to address healthcare fraud. These details are drawn from the lawsuit and other court documents.
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False Claims Case Alleging Forgery, Destroyed Email Moves Forward
A long-running False Claims Act lawsuit against Bon Secours New York Health System and its affiliates is moving forward in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, after physicians came forward to attest that someone forged their signatures on documents required for billing.
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Patient Abandonment Can Occur Without Intent
The current healthcare arena, with a constricted provider marketplace and other challenges for patients seeking a new physician, can amplify the risk of inadvertent patient abandonment.
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Impossible-to-comprehend Forms ‘Make a Sham of Informed Consent’
Long sentences, large paragraphs, technical language, and multisyllabic words all contribute to reading and comprehension difficulties for informed consent forms, found a recent study.
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Very Few Patients Address ICDs in Advance Care Planning
Some clinicians and patients view deactivation of implantable cardiac devices as morally different from the withdrawal of other life-sustaining interventions, yet very few people address this in advance care planning.
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Are Hospital Billing Practices Unethical? Chargemaster Still Used To Boost Revenue
U.S. hospitals still are using chargemaster markups to maximize revenues, found a recent study.
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New Report on Research Integrity: Institutions Also Play a Role
Institutions and environments — not only individual researchers — play an important role in supporting scientific integrity, stresses a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
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Study: Research on Dying ICU Patients Is Ethically Feasible
Research on critically ill, dying ICU patients is ethically feasible, found a recent study which achieved a 95% consent rate for approached families.
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Study: Research Misconduct Rarely Reported by Authors of Systematic Reviews
Research misconduct — not publishing completed research, duplicate publications, or selective reporting of outcomes — sometimes is identified by authors of systematic reviews, but is rarely reported, found a recent study.