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After so many delays to ICD-10, practices have been left in limbo, waiting for the new compliance deadline–Oct. 1, 2015. James Libecco, a single practitioner at Akron Skin Center in Ohio, said the most recent delay has forced his small practice to waste time, effort and money. It has been ready to go with ICD-10 […]
Read MoreI wanted to share this with our readers because I thought it was very interesting and important to know. An overview of Medicare and Medicaid, including the history, innovation and the politics behind them. History 1. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a transformative healthcare bill on July 30, 1965 in Independence Mo., the hometown of […]
Read MoreI thought this was information our readers would want to know since most of them work in a hospital. In its toughest crackdown yet on medical errors, the federal government is cutting payments to 721 hospitals for having high rates of infections and other patient injuries, records released show. Medicare assessed these new penalties against […]
Read MoreAuthors: Elmer J et al. Intensive Care Med 2015 Jan. Severe, but not moderate, hyperoxia portended lower survival to hospital discharge. Hyperoxia may result in increased oxidative stress and ischemia-reperfusion injury in patients resuscitated from cardiac arrest. To assess the effect of hyperoxia on outcomes, investigators retrospectively analyzed data for 184 ventilated post–cardiac arrest patients […]
Read MoreStrategies to reduce the number of emergency surgeries in the United States could save up to $1 billion in health care costs over a decade, new research suggests. The study also found that surgeries planned ahead of time (elective surgery) are less risky for patients and generally have better outcomes. “The costs of surgical care […]
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