Harassment; Fire Sale

By symtym | 12.17.05

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  • Nurses Face Harassment From Patients
    The harassment can run the gamut from offensive jokes or sexual comments to inappropriate touching. Sexual assaults are rare but do occur, nursing officials say. Some male nurses have reported being harassed, but the overwhelming majority of cases are bet
    (tags: hospitals nursing)
  • Why a fire sale on nuclear imaging equipment is coming
    The Ethics in Patient Referrals Act prohibits a physician from referring Medicare/Medicaid patients for certain services to an entity with which the physician has a financial relationship. The goal is to remove financial incentives to order unnecessary pr
    (tags: health_fraud medicare Stark)

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    Journal club was cancelled today - attending in the tropics vacationing. So I mentioned the above article re: nuclear imaging to the cardiology fellows. They did not realize that this was already law - one knew it was proposed. Got some interesting responses - from, "well forget about the nuclear certification", to "it only affects Medicare and Medi-cal patients".
    Glad I am not in private practice and will not need to worry about self referral infractions. (I order nuc studies, then am actually the one giving the persantine or supervising the ETT, but don't do the interpretation or bill for my services).
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