Providers must ensure accuracy of their own internal databases before the latest iteration of the minimum data set, or MDS 3.0, becomes effective October 1, a prominent coding consultant emphasizes.
Poll rates nurses as most honest, ethical profession
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Dec 22, 2015
Nurses have been ranked as the most honest, ethical profession for the fourteenth straight year, a new poll from Gallup has found.
RF Technologies receives Quick Response Plus certification
Jul 29, 2015
RF Technologies has received UL 2560 certification on its Quick Response® Plus wireless nurse call system, the company announced.
Bladder Cancer in the Elderly: Balancing Disease and Surgical Risk
Dec 06, 2013
Of all the newly diagnosed bladder cancer patients, 25%-30% of them will have muscle-invasive disease that ideally will require major surgery in the form of a radical cystectomy, bilateral pelvic lymphadenectomy...
Supreme Court opts not to hear healthcare reform challenge
Nov 10, 2010
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined a request from a conservative California legal group to hear a challenge to the Obama administration’s healthcare reform bill. The group took issue with...
Association votes to explore new Medicare payment formula as temporary ‘doc fix’ hangs in...
Jun 18, 2010
The American Medical Association voted earlier this week to explore new potential payment systems to replace the current Medicare reimbursement formula, according to an AMA statement.
Lawmakers take aim at arbitration pacts
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James M. Berklan
May 01, 2008
A new Senate bill seeks to eliminate providers’ ability to bind residents to pre-dispute arbitration agreements.
Rule would eliminate premiums for some Part D enrollees
Jan 14, 2008
A new regulation proposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services would allow some low-income Medicare beneficiaries, including dual-eligible individuals, to stay in their Medicare prescription...
Nursing home must face vaccine-related wrongful firing claim, but not $2M retaliation accusations
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Kimberly Marselas
Nov 29, 2023
A former director of recreation therapy can move forward with claims that the Massachusetts nursing home where she worked for 10 years wrongly terminated her over her refusal to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
Trial drug improves vision in age-related macular degeneration
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Alicia Lasek
Oct 16, 2019
Patients with “dry” age-related macular degeneration have shown dramatic eyesight improvements in a phase 2 clinical drug trial.