HR 4105

I’m not sure if I agree with AHIMA’s advocacy in favor of HR 4105, to impose a moratorium on the use of recovery audit contractors (RAC) under the Medicare Integrity Program. While I understand there have been issues in the demonstration project, the job of audit recovery is to find payment and collection errors. Many [...]

TACT

The Trial to Assess Chelation Therapy (TACT) is recruiting volunteers at 163 locations across the country.

EDTA chelation therapy involves repeated administrations of a synthetic amino acid to reduce atherosclerotic plaque and other mineral deposits throughout the cardiovascular system.
Participants will be randomly assigned to receive 40 infusions of either the standard chelation solution or placebo. [...]

Goodbye JCAHO, Hello NIAHO

In case you missed the news, there will soon be an alternative in health accreditation.
Det Norske Veritas (DNV) has applied to CMS to become a hospital accreditation service. Unlike the JCAHO, DNV will use ISO 9001 Quality Managment System standards in the accreditation process.
DNV HealthCare Inc. has developed the National Integrated Accreditation for [...]

Gears

Google Gears is ready to change the way you think. You can now work offline on your favorite documents and “gears” enabled web applications. Then when you go online, gears automatically updates the web application. I tested it out using the web based task app, Remember the Milk. Sure enough I was offline, added a [...]