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Targeted temperature management (TTM), previously known as therapeutic hypothermia or protective hypothermia, is an active treatment that tries to achieve and maintain a specific body temperature in a person for a specific duration of time in an effort to improve health outcomes during recovery after a period of stopped blood flow to the brain. [1]
To participate in the program, patients must meet the following inclusion criteria: be an adult greater than sixteen years of age with at least one valid ICD 9 CM diagnosis code, history of blunt or penetrating mechanisms of injury, or have an AIS score ≥ 3. Eligible patients also must have emergency department or hospital dispositions available.
Inclusion criteria may include factors such as type and stage of disease, the subject’s previous treatment history, age, sex, race, ethnicity. Exclusion criteria concern properties of the study sample, defining reasons for which patients from the target population are to be excluded from the current study sample. Typical exclusion criteria ...
The NPDB was created by Congress with the primary goals of improving health care quality, protecting the public and reducing health care fraud and abuse. The NPDB is managed by the Bureau of Health Workforce of the Health Resources and Services Administration in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Before May 6, 2013, the Data Bank ...
Utilization management is "a set of techniques used by or on behalf of purchasers of health care benefits to manage health care costs by influencing patient care decision-making through case-by-case assessments of the appropriateness of care prior to its provision," as defined by the Institute of Medicine [1] Committee on Utilization Management by Third Parties (1989; IOM is now the National ...
The largest form of problem gambling involves online gaming, at 10.6%. Michael Buzzelli, associate director of Problem Gamblers Network of Ohio , said the Voluntary Exclusion List has shown to be ...
OCIG is an in-house, full-service law office, providing legal advice to OIG and compliance guidance to the healthcare industry. OCIG also provides enforcement and compliance measures, working with DOJ on False Claims Act cases and independently on OIG administrative civil monetary penalty and exclusion actions.
Group health insurance plans and new (non-grandfathered) individual health insurance plans [7] Pre-existing condition exclusions prohibited for children under age 19; Reform delayed for 4 years: effective January 1, 2014 Individual and group health insurance plans Pre-existing condition exclusions prohibited in all health insurance plans