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With the May 26 release date of the long-anticipated new season of “Arrested Development” coming ever closer, we got to thinking about the show’s contributions to health care.
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Fewer than one in 25 youth football players suffered concussions, according to preliminary findings from the first year of a two-year study sanctioned by USA Football.
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Florida Gov. Rick Scott has vetoed Medicaid rate increases for home health services and private duty nursing services, according to the Home Care Association of Florida.
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It’s National EMS Week through May 25, and time to honor all those emergency medical service responders who have carried the nation through some tough experiences of late.
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Surveys in Michigan of 300 home and community-based provider organizations show that “providers overall felt that low wages, part-time hours and the lack of training were significant barriers to recruitment and retention,” a release from the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) states.
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Good hospital disaster planners know that traumatic events like the Boston Marathon bombing or the Texas fertilizer plant explosion will require an immediate and large physical response. But don’t forget the mental impact such events can also have on your staff.
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A new rule adopted by the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) will let Medicaid investigators get federal matching funds to electronically search for potential fraud.
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As part of DHD’s ongoing coverage of medical procedures by machines, we had to let you know that the FDA has given premarket approval to SEDASYS® (get it?).
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Only three things are certain in life: death, taxes and Medicare’s ban on stamped signatures on any medical record. Actually – make that two.
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The Congressional Budget Office thinks Obama’s 10-year budget is a money-saver – and that a big chunk of those savings will come from Medicare.
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