Articles Tagged With: AHA
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Best Practices for Hospital Z Codes
Hospital Case Management asked Tammy Love, RHIA, CCS, CDIP, director of coding classification and policy at the American Hospital Association in Washington, DC, to answer a few questions via email about Z codes and what case managers need to know.
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Court Rejects Challenge to Federal Price Transparency Rule
Plaintiffs announced intention to appeal decision.
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AHA Analysis Says Star Ratings Inaccurate
A new analysis from the American Hospital Association concludes that there are fundamental design flaws in the CMS star ratings.
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Clinical Briefs in Primary Care Supplement
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Home visits help members avoid preterm births
A combination of telephonic case management and home visits has helped Optima Health decrease preterm births and low-birth-weight infants. -
VLED can Result in Changes in Liver and Abdominal Fat
Given the observed early reduction in LV and the progressive reduction in VAT, we suggest that the minimum duration for a preoperative VLED be 2 weeks. -
Hospitals choose to share survey results, the good and the bad, with the public
It's not uncommon for hospitals to receive requirements for improvements (RFIs) after a Joint Commission survey. What is surprising is that in May, Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital chose to share this information publicly — not just its accreditation status, but its complete survey results. -
Swimming with sharks: Liability in an age of transparency, rising standards of care
Hospitals may become more liable to infection-related lawsuits as patients gain greater access to information and expect higher standards of care to prevent infections once considered inevitable, a legal scholar warns.