CareWell Urgent Care Centers, which operates 16 urgent care centers in Massachusetts and one in Rhode Island, has agreed to pay $2 million to settle whistleblower allegations that the company submitted inflated and upcoded claims to Medicare and Medicaid, according to the...Read More »
Acute care hospitals reduced c. diff infections by 13%, CLABSIs by 9%, and CAUTIs by 5% in 2017, according to the latest progress report on reducing healthcare-associated infections from the CDC.Read More »
Newsweek has partnered with a global market research and consumer data company, Statista Inc., to develop their own ranking of the top hospitals. Unlike the lists from ...Read More »
The estimated annual cost of sepsis readmissions is more than half the annual cost of all Medicare’s Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) conditions combined—acute myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and pneumonia, according to a new...Read More »
The American Medical Association’s (AMA) current procedural terminology (CPT) editorial panel approved sweeping changes to documentation and code selection guidelines for evaluation and management...Read More »
According to a new study published in PLOS One, hospital care teams frequently use handwritten notes and verbal comments to communicate patient information in order to bypass design and...Read More »
