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Avoid Disastrous Results of Overly Aggressive Collecting
Patients will remember a negative experience.
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Anxiety at All-time High in Registration Areas
Registrars often bear the brunt of patients’ frustration.
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AOHP Offers Research Scholarship
The Association of Occupational Health Professionals in Healthcare is seeking proposals for an original research project on current or anticipated issues in hospital-related occupational health.
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Employee Health Research Steps Up Protection of HCWs
A common truism is that “you can’t have patient safety without worker safety” — which makes intuitive sense, but lacks definitive data.
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Three Nurses Acquire Hepatitis A from Transplant Patient
A highly unusual chain of events led to three nurses being infected with hepatitis A virus from a pediatric transplant patient who contracted it from the organ donor.
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Physician Suicide: Stigma Still Holds Sway
Like so many stories of suicide, this one begins with a haunting memory and an unanswerable question. Why would a young student, having passed the rigorous tests and trials to get into medical school and about to begin the education and career that is his seeming life’s purpose, go home for Thanksgiving break and kill himself?
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AOHP Urges OSHA to Pursue ‘Zero-Tolerance’ Violence Reg
As the comment period closes and efforts to promulgate a standard to protect healthcare workers against violence begin, OSHA should broaden its approach and take a “zero-tolerance” stance against all forms of assaults and verbal threats, urges the Association of Occupational Health Professionals in Healthcare.
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Watch Out for False Claims Act Violations
Most False Claims Act cases are brought by whistleblowers who can receive up to 30% of the government’s recovery in a successful investigation under the act.
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More Details About Anti-kickback Statute
The federal anti-kickback statute (Section 1128B(b) of the Social Security Act) provides criminal penalties for people or entities that knowingly and willfully offer, pay, solicit, or receive remuneration to induce or reward the referral of business reimbursable under federal healthcare programs.
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Federal Officials Ramp Up Healthcare Fraud Violation Investigations
Federal enforcement of the anti-kickback statute and other laws has increased over the past decade. In the 2016 fiscal year, the Department of Justice opened 930 new civil healthcare fraud investigations and had 1,422 civil healthcare fraud matters pending.