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Representatives at Emerus Emergency Hospitals, a licensed emergency specialty hospital company based in The Woodlands, TX, have been telling patients at several of its "24-hour EDs" for months now that if they are not seen by a physician within 15 minutes, the hospital will pay for their $1,000 visit. So far, the new policy is working quite well, say Emerus representatives.
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Hamilton Ambulatory Surgery Center in Dalton, GA, has received the Summit Award from Press Ganey Associates for the fourth year in a row.
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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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Paul Arnstein, RN, PhD, clinical nurse specialist for pain relief at Massachusetts General Hospital, is familiar with The Joint Commission's standards on pain. As president of the American Society for Pain Management Nursing and a liaison representing pain management, Arnstein recently attended an annual meeting with TJC.
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Have you revisited your pain policy? Are you auditing compliance? How will you fare when Joint Commission surveyors come to your facility? Hospital Peer Review spoke with three institutions about the challenges they faced, the interventions they made, and the successes they have seen.
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They just happened to go public at about the same time the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS') final rule on "meaningful use" as part of the HITECH Act and The Leapfrog Group's study results on computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems and its subsequent call for action to monitor the safety of such systems and to develop best practices.