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On April 1, 2014, President Obama signed into law the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014, which directs the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to postpone post-payment audits of the two-midnight rule until after March 31, 2015.
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A decade ago, ECRI investigated a series of incidents in which patients were burned sometimes severely by blankets that were warmed to a high temperature and placed on body parts that either temporarily or permanently lacked sensation.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated guidelines for preventing surgical-site infections, focusing on some difficult issues in an exhaustive and largely futile attempt to find conclusive data on various practices.
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A few years back, staff suggestion boxes were a big thing. It was as if there was a burgeoning realization that people who didnt have big titles might sometimes have a good idea on how to make things better.
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Healthcare providers can go overboard with efforts to comply with HIPAA, hindering the necessary transfer of patient information.
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A mother gave birth to a premature child with multiple physical and cognitive impairments after physicians failed to timely admit the mother to the hospital and subsequently failed to administer treatment that would have prevented brain damage and respiratory distress.
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>In a major change from past policy, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a final rule amending the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) regulations and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations to permit CLIA-certified laboratories to provide copies of completed test reports to patients (or their representatives) upon request.
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State laws can vary significantly regarding a providers options when responding to a whistleblower.
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The lawsuit against Spectrum Health in Grand Rapids, MI, filed by Catherine Puetz, MD, outlines the incident that led to her dismissal.
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In the first settlement with a local government, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) reached an agreement with Skagit County, WA, about HIPAA violations.