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Late News: AHRQ tool kit targets preventable readmissions
By Maureen McKinney. | March 30, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality released a revised toolkit hospitals can use to lower their rates of preventable readmissions, particularly among patients with limited English proficiency and patients from diverse backgrounds. The Re-Engineered Discharge Toolkit is based on Project...
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Video Feature: Dr. Eric Coleman, director of the Care Transitions Program at the University of Colorado Denver (5:00)
By Modern Healthcare | March 30, 2013
Dr. Eric Coleman, director of the Care Transitions Program at the University of Colorado Denver, in a conversation with Modern Healthcare Reporter Maureen McKinney.
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AHRQ releases revised discharge toolkit aimed at curbing readmissions
By Maureen McKinney | March 27, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality released a revised toolkit hospitals can use to lower their rates of preventable readmissions.
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Value-based insurance plans gain momentum
By Jonathan Block | March 26, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The movement among employers to push insurers to adopt health plan benefit designs that improve medical outcomes without raising costs is slowly gathering steam, according to an employer coalition.
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Study identifies patients at high risk for hospital readmissions
By Melanie Evans | March 25, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
How often patients land in the hospital and how long they stay are better indicators of which patients may be readmitted than types of illnesses, number of prescriptions and other factors.
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Lawmakers reintroduce telemedicine measure
By Rachel Landen | March 20, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and John Thune (R-S.D.) have re-introduced the Fostering Independence Through Technology Act—legislation designed to help lower the hospital readmissions rate in rural and underserved communities.
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CMS adds 20 more organizations to care transitions program
By Rachel Landen | March 07, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Twenty more organizations will join the 82 already participating in the CMS's community-based care transitions program, launched in 2011 under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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Researchers urge tweaks to CMS readmissions program to protect safety net facilities
By Maureen McKinney | March 07, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Two prominent health policy researchers say the CMS' penalty program for readmissions has potential but needs some tweaks in order to protect safety net hospitals.
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February 28, 2013
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Reform is curbing readmissions, CMS says
By Rich Daly | February 28, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The Obama administration says provisions of the healthcare reform law have led to fewer Medicare patients returning to hospitals within 30 days of discharge.
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