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New Causes Of Why The Growth In Medicare Spending Have Changed
The causes of Medicare spending growth have changed significantly over the past two decades, according to an article published by Health Affairs. Twenty years ago, most of the increases were due to inpatient hospital services, especially for heart disease, but recent annual increases are the result of outpatient treatment of chronic conditions such as diabetes, arthritis, hypertension, and kidney disease.Read more... For more Healthcare Reform News
Week Of March 8, 2010
Temporary Extension Act Impacts Physician Fee Schedule And Therapy Cap Claims
On March 2, 2010, President Obama signed into law the “Temporary Extension Act of 2010.” Among other...E-prescribing Nearly Triples
The use of electronic prescribing in the U.S. nearly tripled in 2009, according to an annual report ...Midwestern States Receive Least Federal Funding For Disease Prevention
A March 2010 report from the Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundatio...Proposed Rule For The Establishment Of Certification Programs For Health Information Technology
The Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a notice of proposed rul...Low-Consuming Medicare Beneficiaries With Chronic Diseases More Costly
Findings detailed in the analysis “Low Consumption and Higher Medicare Cost: Consumption Clusters in...Hospital Quality Continues To Improve – Heart Attacks, Heart Failure, Pneumonia
Hospitals continue to improve the quality of patient care, saving lives and improving the health of ... Read more...Doctors Don’t Discuss End-of-Life Issues When Patients Feel Well
Despite guidelines recommending that physicians discuss end-of-life options with terminally ill pati... Read more...Visiting Nurse Service of New York Wins Grant to Study Technologies To Help Management Of Multiple Medications
The Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY) Center for Home Health Care Policy & Research has rec... Read more...Regulations Issued On ‘Meaningful Use’ and EHR Incentive Program Standards
The Centers for Medicare & Medicare Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for He... Read more...Managed Care Organization Partners To Cut Readmission Rates
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan working with The Society of Hospital Medicine, and the Univer... Read more...Record Medicaid Enrollment Growth In 2009 Strains Tight State Budgets
Nearly 3.3 million more people enrolled in state Medicaid programs between June 2008 and June 2009, ... Read more...Seniors Struggle Over Multiple Medication Use And Compliance
Nearly three in five (57 percent) of the seniors polled admit that they forget to take their medicat... Read more...Weekly E-Newsletter
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Pay for Performance News
Is Pay for Performance Really Working? According to the results from latest demonstration studies - the answer is Yes! Demonstrations being conducted by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) continue to provide strong evidence that offering financial incentives for improving or delivering high quality care increases quality and can reduce the growth in Medicare expenditures.
New Demonstration Studies -14 Hospitals Collaborating With Over 1,000 Physicians In Gainsharing Demonstrations
CMS announced it will operate two demonstrations to evaluate gainsharing as a means of aligning incentives between hospitals and physicians to improve quality of care and overall hospital efficiency.
Read more...New Nursing Home Demonstration - Nearly 200 Nursing Homes In Three States Testing Value-Based Purchasing
Nearly 200 nursing homes in three states will participate in a Medicare demonstration to determine if financial incentives will improve the quality of the care they provide.
Read more...Over 560 Small Physician Practices Earn Incentive Payments For Quality Performance
In the first year of the MCMP demonstration, almost all of the 610 participating small and solo physician practices are being rewarded for performance on 26 quality measures.
Read more...Physician Groups Improve Quality And Share Savings
All ten of the physician groups participating in the PGP Demonstration achieved benchmark performance on at least 28 of the 32 measures reported in year three of the demonstration.
Read more...Hospitals Continue To Improve Quality
The HQID is sponsored by Medicare in partnership with Premier, Inc., a national hospital quality measurement organization. The demonstration, which began in 2003 with hospitals in 38 states, was designed to test payment incentives under Medicare to see if they would improve the safety, quality and efficiency of inpatient services by linking incentives to improved quality.
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Are Potential Kickback Issues Resolved By Payment Of Fees To Third Parties Instead Of Hospitals To Get On “Vendor Lists” Or To Participate In “E-Discharge” Systems?
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The 2010 Final PPS Rule It’s Not Just About Payments: Limitations On Changes Of Ownership And Reactivating Provider Numbers
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