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With healthcare reform efforts encouraging hospitals to align with physicians more closely, questions are arising about how to do that without running afoul of rules prohibiting kickbacks and collusion.
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In the recent Office of Inspector General (OIG) opinion regarding co-management, the OIG noted that the arrangement was not protected by any Anti-Kickback Statute safe harbor because the aggregate payment to the group was not set in advance, explains Janice Anderson, JD, shareholder with the law firm of Polsinelli Shughar in Chicago.
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Outcomes-based incentives for employer-sponsored workplace wellness programs are expected to become more common as a result of provisions in the Affordable Care Act that encourage their use, but some employers aren't waiting.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Safe Injection Practices Coalition have released new materials to make it easier for clinicians and others working in healthcare to learn and train others about following safe injection practices.
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More than 30% of Pennsylvania healthcare facilities have successfully implemented 21 potential recommendations for preventing wrong-site surgery, according to the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority (PPSA). Such efforts go a low way toward avoiding potentially costly lawsuits.
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Are you performing unnecessary preoperative tests? If so, you're wasting expensive staff time required to conduct them and analyze them, as well as supplies needed to conduct them. In addition, you're experiencing potentially unnecessary surgical delays due to false positives.
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A new tool that calculates the financial and environmental impact of reprocessing is available from Phoenix, AZ-based Ascent, a division of Stryker Corp.
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Would you like to realize dramatic cost savings, including cutting your interest rates in half? Meet with your bank once a year, suggests Joan Shearer, CASC, administrator of Lawrence (KS) Surgery Center.
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Two simple cost-effective methods communications team training and a surgical checklist have been shown in a study to reduce postoperative complications, which are the most expensive medical errors, averaging $14,500 per case.
