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Citing “ridiculous” ICD-10 diagnosis codes and the administrative burden of adopting them, a pair of bills introduced recently in the House and Senate would halt implementation of the ICD-10 code set and require a government study instead.
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Is heart disease getting a bum rap in the United States? So says researchers who find that over reporting heart disease as a cause of death is common in American hospitals.
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Most hospitals already have disaster plans in place that anticipate a surge of patients, but they should also remember to plan for people who just show up looking for safe refuge.
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Effects of economizing Medicare changes that include a home health copayment may not be big enough to outweigh vigorous opposition, a first House hearing on possible ways to overhaul Medicare suggests.
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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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