Psychiatry billing for nursing home services: understanding coding options.

Law and psychiatry. Doing forensic work, II: fees, billing, and collections.

Forensic practice fees, billing, and collection procedures are quite different from those in general psychiatry. Most forensic practices have far fewer "clients," and individual bills are usually larger. Collections are usually better (and less frequently discounted) in forensic practice, and resolving billing disputes is far more straightforward. Medicare, Medicaid, other insurance coverage, p...

The Role of Smart Meters in Enabling Real-Time Energy Services for Households: The Italian Case

The Smart Meter (SM) is an essential tool for successful balancing the demand-offer energy curve. It allows the linking of the consumption and production measurements with the time information and the customer’s identity, enabling the substitution of flat-price billing with smarter solutions, such as Time-of-Use or Real-Time Pricing. In addition to sending data to the energy operators for billi...

<PRORULE> <PREAMB> DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Centers for Medicare Prospective Payment System and Consolidated Billing for Skilled Nursing Facilities: Revisions to Case-mix Methodology AGENCY: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Nursing home telepsychiatry.

Practicing psychiatry by remote access (telepsychiatry) is not a new development. Two-way interactive television has been used on an experimental basis since 1959 in Nebraska, and it has spread to other states as well. Its acceptance and efficacy was evaluated in several studies. In a study using questionnaires, patients’ evaluations of the interview was the same in control and experimental gro...

Investigation of perception of seclusion room in nursing staff of Shahid Beheshti psychiatry hospital

Seclusion is a treatment method which is used in different occasions by the nurses who work in psychiatric wards.early intervention and prevention of maladaptive behaviour requires skilled nursing techniques.the mental health nurses must be able to recognize signs of aggressive behaviour and intervene appropriately.since the improper understanding of this method of treatment will lead to the in...