Looking more like Melrose Place with a very high fence than a jail, the new Knox County Detention Facility in Knox County, Tenn., has largely eschewed bars, replacing them with bar-coded wristbands ...
In its 2014 final rule on hospital outpatient payments, CMS ended its delay of the direct supervision requirement for critical access hospitals. Beginning next year, the agency will require on-site, ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has instructed Medicare contractors not to evaluate or enforce the "direct supervision" requirement for therapeutic services furnished in calendar year ...
(HealthDay)—Direct supervision in which attending physicians join work rounds does not reduce the rate of medical errors, according to a study published online June 4 in JAMA Internal Medicine.
When Sheriff Marlin Gusman opened New Orleans' gleaming new jail in 2015, he promised that inmates would live in a different kind of lockup. Under a “direct supervision” model that has reduced ...
Having direct supervision or supervision through consultation, chart reviews and other interaction assures all patients have the benefit of a highly trained physician involved in their care. Credit: ...
One thing hospitals and banks have in common is that the quality of their work is obscure and not easily measured by the consumer. Systematic abuses can go undetected without direct supervision and ...