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Summary of Senator Baucus's Health Care Reform Bill: America's Healthy Future
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus \(D-MT\) today released thechairmans mark of the Americas Healthy Future Act of 2009.
Lee Memorial Health System in Fort Myers, Florida, found that using advanced registered nurse practitioners \(ARNPs\) to handle psychiatric medical management for patients helped lower length of stay in the emergency department and on medical floors, and improved quality of care.
The Department of Health and Human Services \(HHS\) published in the August 24 Federal Register its interim final rule implementing the Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health \(HITECH\) Act's breach notification requirements.
On August 11, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) published in the Federal Register its skilled nursing facility \(SNF\) prospective payment system \(PPS\) final rule for fiscal year \(FY\) 2010.
In the August 27 Federal Register, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) published its final rule for the hospital inpatient prospective payment system \(PPS\) which includes long-term care hospital \(LTCH\) PPS provisions.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) published in the August 7 Federal Register the inpatient rehabilitation facility \(IRF\) prospective payment system \(PPS\) final rule for fiscal year \(FY\) 2010.
Court Limits Hospitals' Responses to Employee Participation in Unlawful Picketing
On July 31, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) released its fiscal year 2010 final rule for the hospital inpatient prospective payment system \(PPS\), which made significant improvements over the proposed rule.
In November 1999 the Institute of Medicine \(IOM\) released its landmark report, To Err is Human, which estimated that as many as 98,000 people die each year in hospitals because of preventable medical harm.