Here are the top 20 most common principal diagnoses among hospitalized Medicare enrollees age 65 and older in 2006, as based upon data fro 13 states with reporting on type of Medicare enrollment, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research…
Patient Safety & Outcomes
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released uniform policies to prevent Medicare and its beneficiaries from paying for three so-called “never events” — serious, preventable errors, according to a CMS news release.
CMS has proposed today three national coverage determinations (NCDs) to establish uniform national policies that would prevent Medicare from paying for certain serious, preventable errors, or "never events," identified in the National Quality Forum's (NQF's) list of Serious Reportable Events:…
Senators have released a draft of legislation that would start a Medicare value-based purchasing program for hospitals in 2012.
CMS's final Outpatient Prospective Payment System/Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment System (OPPS/ASC) rule also includes a projected 3.9 percent annual inflation update for HOPDs; and adopts changes to payment policies for HOPDs and ASCs beginning Jan. 1. The agency also announced…
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B. Braun Medical has announced the publication of a first-of-its-kind educational guide, Dual Guidance A Multimodal Approach to Nerve Location. The company also announced it has achieved "Best in KLAS" for its smart pump technology in KLAS's 2008 Top…
In recent years the topic of managing sleep apnea patients in the surgical environment has risen from back-office whispers in ambulatory settings to a priority for most OR administrators and medical directors. Driven by complications associated with sleep apnea patients,…
Johnson & Johnson has recalled a pain-management device from Europe due to a potential self-activation defect that could lead to overdose. The Ionsys device's U.S. launch has been delayed.
Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center in Charleston, Ill. has been ordered by a jury to pay a patient $2.3 million following a lawsuit in which a patient alleged that an unncessary procedure performed by a nurse caused the need for…
The Joint Commission has issued a Sentinel Event Alert concerning the use of blood thinners following several high profile errors related to their use.