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Beginning Oct. 16, providers, with a few exceptions, are required to submit all Medicare claims electronically. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has distributed guidance on how to comply with transactions and code sets for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
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Death or injury is 10 times more likely to occur in a doctors office than at outpatient clinics, according to a just-published review of surgeries performed in U.S. doctors offices.
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Although the approach differs from surveyor to surveyor, same-day surgery programs that recently have undergone accreditation surveys notice that surveyors are more interactive with staff and less reliant on policies.
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Because the National Patient Safety Goals from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations emphasize clear communication between caregivers, pay attention
to the legibility of your records, says Suzanne Fornelli, RN, BSN, administrator of The Surgery Center at Southwoods in Youngstown, OH.
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Most same-day surgery providers agree that propofol offers great advantages in outpatient surgery: It hastens patient recovery and is easy to titrate.
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Buying equipment and servicing it can be a major drain on your programs finances. But you can save a significant amount of money by being actively involved in purchasing and maintaining equipment, says Jerry Henderson, RN, CNOR, CASC, executive director of SurgiCenter of Baltimore in Owings Mills, MD.
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For those of us blessed(?) with children, setting limits on acceptable behavior is nothing new. We have been doing it since the little darlings were born.
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As with all high-volume procedures, same-day surgery managers continuously look for ways to increase efficiency and improve patient care, and there is always room for improvement.
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The days of accreditation surveyors flipping through policy books and interviewing management team members may not be completely gone, but the majority of information gathered about a same-day surgery program today comes from the surveyors review of patient charts.
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Same-day surgery programs preparing for a Medicare survey can find help in complying with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) 2000 Life Safety Code in a document focused on same-day settings from the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC).
