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Payers are asking for more authorizations for high-dollar radiology procedures, and claims denials are resulting, reports Stephen Hovan, executive director of patient fiscal services at The University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville, who adds that his department is seeing a 75% increase in authorizations for radiology processes.
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Registrars at Carolinas HealthCare System in Charlotte, NC, benefit from "tricks of the trade" shared by specialists within the department, reports Christina Baugh, supervisor of PRN registrars and patient financial service specialists for corporate patient access.
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Would you consider one-year-old uncollected account with a large outstanding balance to be a lost cause that ultimately will need to be written off?
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What is an ethical physician to do when a patient provides pertinent information but insists that it be kept "off the record?" While there is an expectation of confidentiality between doctor and patient, there are instances when a patient will only reveal certain information if the doctor agrees not to record it in their medical files.
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Doctors need to become more aware of how governments subtly, but profoundly, interfere with their professional obligations and results in patients' human rights being violated, says a law scholar at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics in Baltimore, MD, in a commentary recently published in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
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A new study from the Dartmouth Atlas Project seems to indicate the "report card" for Medicare patients at the end of life (EOL) is a mixed bag of pluses and minuses.
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Seeing a need for ethics guidance for local groups attempting to conduct community-based research, an organization in Kitchener, Ontario, has created an independent Community Research Ethics Office (CREO).
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Bioethicist Steven Miles, MD, professor, University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, has called for a renewal of military medical ethics in the United States.
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The Circle of Life Award celebrates programs across the nation that has made great strides in palliative and end-of-life care. This is the 12th year for the Circle of Life Award.
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Hospitalized patients who had conversations about religion and spirituality with the healthcare team were the most satisfied with their overall care.
