Private-sector health plans have developed many innovative techniques to reward physicians for doing good work and have improved treatment quality and patient safety, according to a news release from America's Health Insurance Plans.
Patient Safety & Outcomes
A new study from the Department of Health & Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality found that complications from bariatric surgery declined 21 percent from 2002 to 2006, according to an AHRQ news release.
The National Quality Forum, the group that sets medical guidelines used by CMS to evaluate and reimburse medical facilities for services, has rejected a rule that would require a CT scan within 45 minutes of a stroke patient's arrival at…
In an effort to improve patient safety and reduce hospital errors, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina announced that it will no longer pay hospitals for preventable adverse patient events, according to a report in The Business Journal of…
A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that the nation spends billions of dollars a year on patients' return visits to the hospital, according to an article in The New York Times.
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A new study published in the Apr. 1 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association casts doubt on a hospital safety survey performed by the nonprofit Leapfrog Group, according to a report in HealthDay.
A study completed by HealthCore, a research subsidiary of WellPoint, found that around 36,000 patients enrolled in six WellPoint health plans were overtreated for back pain, according to a WellPoint news release.
The Joint Commission has marked March 8-14 as National Patient Safety Awareness Week, according to a Joint Commission news release.
In an effort to eliminate errors and to promote patient safety, Washington state hospitals have adopted new standardized systems, according to a news release from the Washington State Hospital Association.
A study conducted by the University of Connecticut Health Center and the Massachusetts Medical Society showed that the cost of defensive medicine — tests, procedures, referrals, hospitalizations, or prescriptions ordered by physicians fearful of lawsuits — is "huge and widespread,"…