tci Part B Insider - 2012 Issue 8

Physician Note: HHS Settles With Dialysis Center Over Failure to Offer Sign Language Interpreter

Plus: Practitioners collected $3.1 billion in EHR incentives, HHS says.If you can't communicate with your patient, you're unable to give him the best care possible. That's the verdict from a recent government settlement with a Maryland-based dialysis center.The HHS Department announced on Feb. 17 that it entered into a settlement with the dialysis center following an investigation involving a deaf patient who was refused access to a sign language interpreter for his treatment. The dialysis facility attempted to communicate with the patient via writing notes, but because the patient was also vision impaired, the notes were...

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