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Do you really want to know how to make people happy at your facility? I mean, do you really want to know? I will step up and be honest; sometimes I don't know! Sometimes I really don't care and want someone to make me happy.
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A July report from the American Hospital Association (AHA) regarding the shift of care to nonhospital settings1 brought strong reaction from FASA, which said the association is playing "the blame game."
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Under a proposed regulation, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) would require hospital outpatient department (HOPD) payment rate updates to be tied to inpatient quality measures provided by the hospital, beginning in 2007. Under the proposal, hospitals that don't submit the required quality data would see their HOPD rate updates reduced 2 percentage points.
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In a proposed regulation, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is adding 14 procedures to the approved list for ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) in 2007 (see list) and plans to expand the list further in 2008.
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In a first step toward a new ambulatory surgery center (ASC) payment system, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a proposed rule that would pay ASCs 62% of the hospital outpatient department (HOPD) rate, beginning Jan. 1, 2008, with a two-year transition period.
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Is your drug database leading you astray?; Women's hearts less well-tended than men's?; AMA statement against MD participation in executions; 'Older, artier' students make better doctors
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Medical journals nationwide are taking a harder look at their conflict-of-interest or financial disclosure policies, as publications acknowledge a spate of embarrassing examples of journals failing to cite ties between authors and the companies producing the treatments they write about.
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States will be granted "report cards" on their policies on pain management in an attempt to show how well or inadequately U.S. medicine helps cancer patients deal with chronic pain.
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When faced with a pediatric patient who has a heart condition that could lead to chronic health problems later in life, a physician rarely would hesitate to bring the condition to the attention of the child's parents and discuss ways to address it.
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A new study attempts to validate the argument that emergency medicine services (EMS) not staffed by paramedics could reduce the number of hopeless ambulance trips to the hospital if emergency medical technicians (EMTs) were allowed to end resuscitation efforts sooner in patients who are in cardiac arrest.
