Seun Ross said the problem of burnout goes beyond the issue of nurses leaving their jobs. By definition, nurses who are burned out have gone beyond stressed to the point where they can no longer function well at work. “Nurse burnout really means that a nurse is now disengaged from her work, which is completely different from being stressed out,” she said. “A burnt-out nurse doesn’t care. She’s cynical. She’s irritable. She’s angry. She’s running out of the hospital before the end of her shift.“ (Source: Huffington Post; Photo by Tumisu, Pixabay)  More »

In a scathing report issued, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) reported that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) overpaid hospitals over $51,000,000 which resulted in inappropriate beneficiary liabilities of over $14,000,000 and estimated that CMS likely paid out nearly $100,000,000 in the last decade. These overpayments were found when the OIG audited the payment of outpatient claims paid to acute care hospitals for services provided to patients who were inpatients at a long term acute care hospital (LTCH), an inpatient psychiatric hospital (IPF), an inpatient rehabilitation hospital (IRF), or a critical access hospital. (Source: RACmonitor; Photo by IO-Images, Pixabay)  More »