Healthcare Finance News April 2, 2024
The agency stresses the importance of obtaining and documenting informed consent before performing sensitive examinations.
The Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have released new guidance to reiterate and provide clarity regarding hospital requirements for informed consent from patients as it relates to medical professionals performing sensitive examinations – particularly on patients under anesthesia.
HHS cited media reports and medical and scientific literature highlighting instances in which, as part of medical students’ courses of study and training, patients have been subjected to sensitive and intimate examinations – including pelvic, breast, prostate or rectal examinations – while under anesthesia without proper informed consent being obtained prior to the exam.
In the departments’ view,...
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