by Mary Pat Whaley | May 1, 2010 | Definitions
Also known as IP telephony, voice over broadband (VoBB), broadband telephony and broadband phone, VoIP refers to communication transported via the Internet. Traditional voice transfer is referred to as PSTN, which stands for public switched telephone network. You...
by Mary Pat Whaley | May 1, 2010 | Definitions
Clostridium difficile, often called C. difficile or “C. diff,” is a bacterium that can cause symptoms ranging from diarrhea to life-threatening inflammation of the colon. Illness from C. difficile most commonly affects older adults in hospitals or in long...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Apr 28, 2010 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Day-to-Day Operations, Medicare & Reimbursement
I am very pleased to be the speaker for a free webinar sponsored by Integrated Healthcare Systems. The webinar will be on one of my favorite topics – front-end patient collections – and will air live on Tuesday, May 11th, at 2:30 Eastern time. Topics I...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Apr 25, 2010 | Definitions
The Medicare Window is the 30-day period during which Medicare will pay for a patient to be readmitted to a Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF – pronounced “sniff”) facility under the following criteria: the patient has received Part A benefits covering a...
