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Medicare requirements for issuing the Important Message from Medicare (IM) and the Hospital-Issued Notices of Noncoverage (HINNs) have been around so long that they sometimes get short shrift.
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When hospitals determine that the care patients are receiving or are about to receive will not be covered by Medicare because it is not medically necessary, not delivered in an appropriate setting, or is custodial in nature, the hospital should provide the patient with a Hospital-Issued Notice of Noncoverage (HINN) to inform them that they will be responsible for the bill if they choose to stay in the hospital.
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It seems like one of the more straightforward standards: to make sure that you regularly collect and review quality data from providers. And yet, surveyors do find issues with organizations. So what makes for a good Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation policy? And what are the common problems that Joint Commission surveyors are finding?
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How can you make sure that your nurses make a difference to the outcomes of your patients? According to a study in the January issue of Medical Care1, all it takes is a good patient/nurse ratio and good leadership.
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There were a lot of hospitals and healthcare providers who believed that Meaningful Use would go the way of ICD-10 coding: It would be delayed and delayed and altered and delayed again. So instead of jumping on any bandwagon, they opted to wait.
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A lot of hospitals and other healthcare organizations have been talking about Lean management and the Toyota process. Indeed, there have been dozens of academic studies related to its techniques in the last couple of years alone.
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The people at Iowa Health System in Des Moines knew they had good patient education methods. Theyd been using teach-back for years, through which patients are never asked yes or no questions like Do you understand the instructions? but are instead asked to repeat back their understanding of what was said by a provider.
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The Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ) has launched a free, searchable new application that compiles thousands of federal inspection reports for hospitals around the nation since January 2011.
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More pay, better hours, and the chance of advancement. These are the most common reasons patient access employees leave the department.
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