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According to a newly released report, reimbursement for gastroenterology procedures provided in surgery centers will decrease by as much as 20% in coming years, which will require a significant restructuring of many practices.
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Leaders of the ambulatory surgery community are praising Congress for passing a provision that requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to develop quality reporting requirements for ambulatory surgery centers and hospital outpatient services.
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Hospitals are ill-prepared to cope with even a mild pandemic and are likely to face shortages of staff, protective equipment, bedspace, and other supplies.
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Massive stockpiling of N95 respirators by major corporations preparing for pandemic influenza has caused supply problems for hospitals, which need N95s for current infectious disease hazards such as tuberculosis.
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About one in four health care workers who are offered the hepatitis B vaccine decline to take it, according to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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The state of New York has taken a step toward ensuring consistency in the provision of language assistance services to hospital patients with limited English proficiency (LEP).
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Many health care quality proponents are under the impression that, while there is much they can do within the hospital setting to improve patient safety and quality, their impact is limited when it comes to much-needed changes in public policy.
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One of the EMTALA-related questions he hears most frequently from providers is whether it is permissible to send patients to an urgent care setting following triage in the emergency department (ED).
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When the pressures of working in the highly charged atmosphere of the emergency department (ED) collide with the internal "caste" system often created by staff, the situation is ripe for conflict between nurses and ED registration staff.
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With increasingly complex cases and more and more uninsured patients, traditional case management staffing models have become obsolete.