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Regulatory & Risk Management
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Physician practice acquisitions: 4 hospital considerations
How should hospitals go about deciding whether to acquire a practice? How do they know which practices will be a good fit? And what are the risks versus the potential rewards?
OIG to target insurance exchange risk areas
Federal health officials yesterday testified before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce's Subcommittee on Health about healthcare reform eligibility issues.
Health data aggregation poses privacy concerns
Aggregation of consumer health data holds the potential to improve healthcare, but raises issues about patient privacy, according a California HealthCare Foundation report.
Emergency room docs struggle with two-midnight rule, observation status
As hospitals across the nation face the complications i nvolved with the two-midnight rule, emergency physicians may experience the most conflicts as they strive to balance patient needs with the federal government requirements for short inpatient stays.
ICD-10 delay: How docs can capitalize
Healthcare providers--and practice managers, in particular--would be wise to take advantage of the most recent ICD-10 delay, not by shifting their focus to other projects, but instead shoring up potential areas of weakness, according to family physician Stephen Spain.
Why 'systems engineering' is crucial to healthcare delivery transformation
A report published in May by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology calls on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to transform healthcare nationally by engineering a "robust" health information infrastructure. Following up on that report, researchers from the National Quality Forum in the District of Columbia who helped pen the document have outlined and dissected the report's recommendations.
NP autonomy expands in Kentucky
Nurse practitioners (NPs) in Kentucky can prescribe routine medications without a doctor's involvement starting this week--if they completed a four-year collaboration with a doctor, Kaiser Health News reported.
HIMSS Analytics: Infection, lab outreach IT tools poised for growth
IT tools that allow hospitals to reduce infection incidences, help with lab outreach services and improve patient acuity are among the top IT applications poised for growth, according to a new report by HIMSS Analytics.
Two-midnight rule means complications for hospitals, patients
The controversial "two-midnight rule" puts both hospitals and patients in a tight spot, USA Today reports.
Should insurers cover sex-reassignment surgery?
Now that Medicare is covering sex-reassignment surgery, transgender advocates have set their sights on getting all insurers to include the controversial medical procedure in their health plans, Politico reported.
