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Patients Over Paperwork Initiative Focuses on Reducing E/M Red Tape

New documentation guidelines will change how you code and audit evaluation and management services. In response to an executive order, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma announced the Patients Over Paperwork initiative, which focuses on reducing administrative burdens placed on clinicians while improving care coordination, health outcomes, and patients’ ability to […]

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New Sentinel Event Alert focuses on leadership’s role in culture of safety

The Joint Commission in March unveiled Sentinel Event Alert (SEA) 57, which stresses the role of leadership in developing and sustaining a culture of safety. It goes on to claim that leadership’s failure in this regard contributes to several adverse events, including wrong site surgery and treatment delays. It’s impossible to completely eliminate human and mechanical error completely, the accreditor writes. But leaders can take a role in mitigating and catching these mistakes before they hurt someone.

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AORN guidelines on unintended retention of a foreign body focuses on counting and communication

 Patients continue to be stitched closed with surgical sponges, gloves, needles, electrodes, scalpels, wires, tweezers, forceps, scopes, masks, tubes, and scissors left inside them. To combat the problem, the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) released updates to its Guideline for Prevention of Retained Surgical Items back in 2016.

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CMS report focuses on AOs’ life safety short-comings

The annual CMS evaluation of accreditation organizations (AO) is out and in the hands of Congress. CMS thinks all the AOs aren’t doing as well as they should in catching violations and is promising Congress that it’s actively working to change that.

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