Post-Acute Care news and information

Federal health information technology policymakers plan to establish a voluntary program for the testing and certification of electronic health-record systems used by long-term care, post-acute care and behavioral health providers.
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The nation's skilled-nursing facilities and inpatient rehabilitation facilities will see their Medicare payments increase in 2014 under two final rules from the CMS this week.
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Editor's note: As health systems continue to diversify across the continuum of care, healthcare leaders will need to identify which services to offer and where to offer them. A recent Modern Healthcare editorial webinar, “The Future of Specialty Service Lines in a Diversified...
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John Maupin Jr., president of the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, will retire at the end of the next school year and, effective July 1, 2014, Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice will replace him. Montgomery Rice, 51, was named executive VP and dean in 2011, and she will retain the...
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The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission recommended in March 2012 that Medicare should equalize evaluation and management office visit payment rates, regardless of whether they occur in a hospital outpatient setting or a physician's office, which would save up to $1 billion a year. On Friday it...
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The American Health Care Association and the Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care have agreed to join their organizations and operate under the AHCA name beginning July 1.
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Going into the New Year, there was nothing but optimism that healthcare companies would continue the buying spree that colored 2012. But mergers and acquisitions in 2013 opened with a whimper.
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The CMS center charged with testing new payment and delivery models has pinpointed post-acute care as a high-cost area in dire need of novel new approaches, and experts in the field are applauding the move.
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As hospital systems and post-acute providers escalate their purchases and start-ups of skilled nursing facilities, hospices and home health agencies, they face enormous challenges. Will they be able to create the continuum of care needed to improve quality and hold down costs? This must-attend...
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As hospital systems and post-acute providers escalate their purchases and start-ups of skilled-nursing facilities, hospices and home health agencies, they face enormous challenges. Will they be able to create the continuum of care needed to improve quality and hold down costs?
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