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Reform Update: Synergies seen with RWJF, Innovation Center initiatives
By Maureen McKinney | May 13, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
An eight-year initiative aimed at improving healthcare quality and lowering costs has entered its final phase, and its director says the project's lessons could serve as best practices for healthcare providers across the nation.
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Reform Update: Obesity, chronic-disease care could undermine cost control efforts
By Melanie Evans | May 08, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The spreading obesity epidemic, greater intensity of medical care and greater prevalence of chronic disease contributed the most to health spending growth during the better part of the last quarter century, according to new research released this week.
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Reform Update: PCORI board notes need for better communication
By Maureen McKinney | May 06, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The need for better communication—with research applicants, patients and practicing clinicians—was a frequent topic of discussion at the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute's board of governors meeting on Monday.
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CMS seeks 2% payment increase for inpatient rehab facilities
By Rich Daly | May 02, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Medicare's inpatient rehabilitation facility payment rates could increase by up to 2% in fiscal 2014, under a rule proposed by the CMS.
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Reform Update: CMS plans changes to performance pay, penalties
By Maureen McKinney | April 29, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
In its newly released proposed inpatient hospital payment rule for 2014, the CMS plans a slew of performance-based payment changes, including a penalty program for hospital-acquired conditions and updates to the agency's readmissions reduction program that would expand the parameters for...
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Rate change: CMS payment schedule proposal already drawing fire
By Jessica Zigmond and Rich Daly | April 26, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
While the CMS' proposed payment schedule for 2014 includes small increases in Medicare payments for acute- and long-term care hospitals, it would change reimbursement for facilities serving high numbers of the uninsured, drawing fire from public hospitals.
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'Obamacare' positions telehealth tech as a remedy for chronic hospital readmissions
By Scientific American | April 09, 2013
Mobile devices, microchipped meds and digital health records are among the tools available to keep patients and clinicians connected during convalescence.
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Penalties spur Mich. hospitals to slow revolving door
By Jay Greene, Crain's Detroit Business | April 09, 2013
Most hospitals in Southeast Michigan have been working on projects to reduce readmission rates as Medicare and some private payers no longer reimburse for certain patients who are re-hospitalized within 30 days.
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Targeting salt intake—despite controversy | Hospitals encourage reducing sodium to aid patients, readmission rates
By Ashok Selvam | April 05, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Though scientists remain divided over the importance of reducing dietary salt, some healthcare systems struggling to lower their readmission rates are taking public health warnings to heart.
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Hospitals question Medicare rules on readmissions
By New York Times | April 01, 2013
It is no longer enough for hospitals to make patients healthy enough to leave. Now, they are spending millions of dollars to keep those patients from coming back.
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