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The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) has launched its Reimbursement Resource App, which offers providers, case managers, patients, and payers access to payment assistance and reimbursement programs for multiple cancer types.
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Accurate productivity data is critically important to adequately staff registration areas, but patient access leaders often lack technology to capture this information.
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At Greater Baltimore (MD) Medical Center, patient access managers use extensive training, scripting, and role-playing to increase point-of-service collections in the emergency department (ED).
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People who have cognitive problems often face difficulties when they are hospitalized. They are in different surroundings, with different schedules, different caregivers. Symptoms of cognitive problems can become more pronounced, agitation worse. They may become violent where before they were not.
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There has long been a hole in the data collected on joint replacements: Patient-reported outcomes over an extended period of time were missing.
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A short study in the July issue of the Journal of Hospital Medicine1 may change handoffs forever. For the first time, a tool created to judge the quality of how one physician passes the baton to another has been validated as effective.
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Serious reportable events the words can send a shiver up the spine of a quality professional, and any healthcare professionals who are present when such events occur.
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Patient- and family-centered care is at the heart of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), says Deborah Maurer, RN, MBA, administrator, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Transplant Services.
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At the American College of Surgeons annual quality conference in New York in July, surgeons outlined some of the gains that data from the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) database has helped them achieve.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) continues to investigate outbreaks as a result of unsafe injection practices
