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Alcohol abuse is a "significant problem" for surgeons in the United States, with more than 15% of respondents in a nationwide survey signaling that they might have dependency issues, the American College of Surgeons reports.
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There are about 5,000 captive insurance companies in the world, with most being sponsored by U.S. entities, according to information provided by Capstone Associated Services in Houston, TX, which assists organizations with setting up captives.
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Captive insurance companies aren't for everyone, says Timothy E.J. Folk, vice president with The Graham Co., a healthcare consulting company in Philadelphia.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Whistleblower Program was created in Section 922 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2011.
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Security is a major concern for healthcare providers using the cloud, says Paul Rubell, JD, partner in the Corporate Law Group at the law firm of Meltzer Lippe Goldstein & Breitstone in Mineola, NY.
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Health Management Associates (HMA) shareholders filed a class action in Florida federal court recently and claimed stock prices dropped after it was revealed the hospital group had used Medicare fraud to inflate prices and hidden a wrongful-termination whistleblower suit by an employee who uncovered the alleged fraud.
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Why should a patient's electronic health record (EHR) be stored on-site, when the records can be cost effectively stored on the Internet at a remote location? This question is posed by Bernard Rosof, MD, MACP, CEO of the Quality in Healthcare Advisory Group, a consulting firm in Huntington, NY.
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The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) has created a new measure now endorsed by the National Quality Forum (NQF) that will require health plans for the first time to report all readmissions that occur within 30 days of discharge something that happens to about a fifth of Medicare patients.
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For years, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) state operations manual has had guidelines for surveyors to assess issues related to patient safety at hospitals.
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Everyone knows that in order to have the kind of hospital that gets an A grade in safety from The Leapfrog Group, you need to have an organization whose culture values safety. But how do you know that you do? And is there a way you can measure it?
