Q: Our reimbursement specialist says we’ve missed several opportunities to code IV fluids given at the hospital on the 5-day PPS assessment. How is this information reported and supported? A:IV fluids ...

Hospitals around the country are conserving critical intravenous fluid bags to cope with a shortage that may last months. Some hospital administrators say they are changing how they think about IV ...

OAKLAND, Calif. - Health care facilities in the Bay Area are changing protocols to account for the national shortage of IV fluids. Hurricane Helene is to blame, as the biggest supplier of fluids, ...

Usha Lee McFarling is a former STAT reporter. Hospitals across the country are struggling to conserve and stretch their supplies of IV fluids in the wake of a shortage brought on by Hurricane Helene, ...

Normally, hospitals are, well, flush with IV fluids. But right now, that isn’t the case. In addition to the physical damage to many hospitals and clinics in the region, Hurricane Helene knocked out ...

EVANSVILLE — The area's two largest hospital systems can't, or won't, say what percentage of their normal IV fluid supplies they are receiving in the wake of nationwide shortages. Some hospitals have ...

Baxter provides around 60% of the country's IV fluid supply. It's plant in North Cove, NC was shut down by damage from Hurricane Helene. A nationwide shortage of intravenous (IV) fluids persists ...

More than 86 percent of healthcare providers surveyed across the US are experiencing shortages of intravenous fluids after Hurricane Helene’s rampage took out a manufacturing plant in western North ...

Intravenous fluid shortages appear to be affecting the majority of the nation’s healthcare providers, who as a result are already beginning to cancel procedures, survey data published Thursday show.