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The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority is an independent state agency located in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Its mission is to improve the quality of healthcare in Pennsylvania by collecting and analyzing patient safety information, developing solutions to patient safety issues, and sharing this information through education and ...
Oct. 2—HARRISBURG — Records of births and deaths in Pennsylvania migrate this week to a new online system. The Department of Health plans to transfer the records between Friday and Monday ...
Overbilling is a part of many fraud audit infrastructures employed by large companies. [12] Computer programs and software is often used to screen a company's finances to check for overbilling or symptoms of overbilling. [13] Overbilling has been the focus of several infamous scandals, such as the Worldcom scandal [14] and the bankruptcy of W ...
Much of the impetus for this legislation can be traced to the publication of the landmark report, "To Err is Human", [4] by the Institute of Medicine in 1999 (Report). The Report cited studies that found that at least 44,000 people and potentially as many as 98,000 people die in U. S. hospitals each year as a result of preventable medical errors.
In 2015 CMS identified 254 quality measures for which providers may choose to submit data. The measures map to U.S. National Quality Standard (NQS) health care quality domains: [4]
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State Judge Daniel Coble found that even though Dawn Darby didn’t pay the erroneous medical bills Prisma sent her, she had suffered an injury because disputing unwarranted bills cost her time ...
The move to electronic medical records is becoming increasingly prevalent in health care delivery systems in the United States, with more than 80% of hospitals adopting some form of EHR system by November 2017. [1] The adoption of electronic medical records is widely viewed as a success by healthcare professionals, reducing the risk of medical ...