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If youre managing the care of a patient who has a comorbidity of HIV or AIDS, keep in mind that the patient is likely to have issues that other patients with the same condition do not.
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In creating the public policy platform that will guide its efforts through 2006, the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses (AAOHN) includes priorities that reflect the changing role of occupational and environmental health nurses and the changing world in which they work.
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People who choose home health care as their profession are caring, people-oriented professionals, but home health managers should not assume that being caring and friendly always results in the best customer service, say experts.
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Anyone who works in retail knows that customer satisfaction is the key to repeat business, leading to a more successful financial future.
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An intensive one-on-one case management program helps people with AIDS stay adherent to their medication regime, avoid hospitalizations and emergency department visits, and learn to self-manage their disease.
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The Department of Health and Human Services published the final enforcement rule for all HIPAA Administrative Simplification rules with an effective date of March 16, 2006.
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A woman who fell and was injured in the parking lot of a medical center after arriving for an appointment had no claim against the hospital under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), ...
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Future health services managers - including those in access management - must be prepared to deal with evolving integrated health care delivery systems, technological innovations, an increasingly complex regulatory environment, and restructuring of work.
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A procedure for obtaining copays and deductibles from unscheduled inpatients during their hospital stay is the latest in a series of successful collections initiatives at Hillcrest Medical Center in Tulsa, OK,...
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A couple of well-known slogans give a sense of the overall lesson learned from the National Association of Healthcare Access Management (NAHAM) collaborative on upfront collections,...