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At times, patients face lengthy wait times due to missing or invalid orders in registration areas. These long waits decrease satisfaction scores for patient access. Educate provider offices on situations in which patients were inconvenienced. Have physicians use online scheduling, which requires ICD9 and diagnosis codes. Scan orders so they can be located online.
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Like many patient access leaders, Linaka Kain, DE, a disability examiner and Medicaid specialist at Trinity Regional Health System Rock Island, IL, is expecting a large influx of newly eligible patients coming on to the Medicaid program as a result of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2014.
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At the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange in Carson City, NV, workers have been counting down the days until Oct. 1 on an office corkboard, according to a report in Kaiser Health News.1 Now it is only days to the deadline for opening the online marketplaces that are a linchpin of the federal health law known as Obamacare, the report said.
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"Churn when otherwise-eligible Medicaid beneficiaries are disenrolled and re-enrolled in the program is a frequent problem and will continue to be so under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), according to Benjamin D. Sommers, MD, PhD, assistant professor of health policy and economics at Harvard School of Public Health in Boston.
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The Joint Commissions (TJCs) sixth measure set (or fifth and sixth measure sets, for hospitals with fewer than 1,100 births per year) will be chosen by all general medical/surgical hospitals from the approved complement of core measure sets, according to TJC.
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This is the perinatal care measure set from The Joint Commission: Set Measure ID: PC-02 Rationale: The removal of any pressure to not perform a cesarean birth has led to a skyrocketing of hospital, state, and national cesarean section rates.
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In a motion for leave to file an amicus brief, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) has told a court that the criminalization of language used in medical reports will have a profoundly chilling effect on the practice of medicine.
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News: In 2004, a 15-year-old boy underwent brain surgery to eliminate epileptic seizures initiating from the right side of his brain.
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There has to be engagement by the medical staff and leadership to achieve the cultural changes and initiatives necessary to reduce cesarean sections, says Robin Kish, MBA, BSN, RN, CPHQ, vice president of Marsh Clinical Healthcare Consulting in Nashville, TN.
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Janice Anderson, JD, shareholder with the law firm of Polsinelli Shughar in Chicago, provides this explanation of the situation prompting a recent Office of Inspector General (OIG) opinion regarding co-management:
