A proposed CMS change to the 2017 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule will require surgeons document and report data every 10 minutes for new billing codes (G-codes). The penalty for not submitting this d...

CMS announced on September 8 that it had finalized new emergency response requirements for healthcare providers participating in the Medicare or Medicaid system.The new rules go into effect on Novembe...

The Mayo Clinic experienced a highly publicized case of drug diversion back in 2008, where a nurse was caught stealing fentanyl from patients about to have a catheter inserted. The incident prompted t...

John Hopkins researchers looked at three years and 4,500 acute-care facilities worth of readmission and mortality data, finding that hospitals with high readmission rates tended to have lower mortalit...

was denied full Joint Commission accreditation, in part due to its handling of fire drills. The Joint Commission has released a new fire drill matrix for facilities to forestall confusion on survey da...

Recent events in Colorado and Utah underscore the difficulties hospitals have in preventing drug diversion ...

Patient misidentification has become a primary concern for both IT professionals and patient safety leaders ...

Patient safety and infection control experts commonly refer to hand hygiene as the simplest, most effective way to prevent disease transmission....

Keeping a hospital compliant and survey ready is a difficult, endless, and often frustrating task. One of the difficulties can be impressing the importance of accreditation to those who aren't immerse...

Several months after more than 60 medical experts and advocacy groups called on CMS to remove the pain treatment questions from patient surveys, the agency has announced a proposal to do just that....