The American Hospital Association (AHA) is urging acute care organizations to invite their Congressional representatives—who are currently out for August recess—to visit their local hospitals. "Let them see your quality improvements, work to reduce readmissions, investments in health information...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 32
Researchers at Kaiser Permanente have shown it's possible to automate collection of data from an electronic health record for public quality reporting. They've also proved that this automation saves money, compared to manual data abstraction. However, their paper in the Journal of the...
Medicare will levy $227 million in fines against hospitals nationwide for the second round of the government’s campaign to reduce the number of patients readmitted within a month, according to federal records released last week. Medicare identified 2,225 hospitals that will have payments reduced...
Hospitals should conduct drug tests on all physicians and nurses, especially following an adverse event, and physicians and nurses should be ready to comply, according to New York University Langone Medical Center’s Director of the Division of Medical Ethics. In a MedPage Today article...
A veteran nurse present during a botched kidney transplant the University of Toledo Medical Center, in Toledo, Ohio, last summer has sued for wrongful termination. The lawsuit filed last week in Columbus seeks $25,000 for Melanie LeMay, a nurse suspended then fired after a different nurse...
The American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) and the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) last week released a joint paper that advocates for physician-led, team-based care, while defining the critical roles physician assistants (PAs) and physicians play in improving access to high-...
Massachusetts’ largest nurses union will ask voters to do what the State Legislature has refused to do: establish statewide limits on the number of hospital patients assigned to each nurse. The Massachusetts Nurses Association launched a Facebook campaign earlier this week and an Internet...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 31
The American Hospital Association’s Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence initiative has announced a primer for hospitals and healthcare systems as they transition to value-based contracting arrangements. “In the evolving business model, hospitals, healthcare systems, physician groups and other...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 31
The Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) final rule, released late Friday, establishes terms that distinguish an inpatient admission from observation status, for which hospitals receive lower rates of Medicare reimbursement. Hospital groups angrily objected to the final IPPS rule...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 31
Physician-owned hospitals, which are prohibited from accepting Medicare and Medicaid patients, are nonetheless expanding in North Texas by catering to and cashing in on a narrow patient market. Victory Healthcare and Forest Park Medical Center are two examples of physician-owned hospitals which...
