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Almost $8 billion in meaningful incentives has been paid to 82,535 eligible providers and 1,474 hospitals for Stage 1 compliance, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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A new review of electronic health records (EHRs) by the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority found that mistakes made in EHRs can be farther reaching than errors using traditional paper records, according to the National Association of Healthcare Access Management (NAHAM), referring to a story in MedPage Today.
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The Joint Commission has released its 2013 Survey Activity Guide for Health Care Organizations.
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Your patient access employees probably are accustomed to fielding questions from patients about insurance coverage, but what about helping uninsured patients obtain coverage?
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During the first year of a three-year project to increase point-of-service (POS) collections at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, patient access leaders set and reached a goal of increasing pre-service collections for scheduled inpatients and outpatient surgeries to $2 million, starting from a baseline of $500,000 a year.
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When an IRB initiates electronic metrics collection and analyses as part of its quality improvement process, there will be obstacles to overcome.
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Low-income cancer patients, including those who are on Medicare, are far less likely to participate in clinical trials than higher-income patients, according to a study in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
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A study by Canadian researchers shows that many published breast cancer studies are biased to show a positive outcome.
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In order to protect human subjects and the integrity of research, everyone involved should adhere to ethics guidelines and must adhere to ethics and compliance standards.
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Informed consent documents remain long and complex, despite successful efforts in recent years to improve their readability, an expert reports.