Healthcare Reform News
Health Reform: New CMS Report Shows Savings Of Nearly $8 Billion By 2012
Medicare will see savings of nearly $8 billion by the end of 2012 with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reported. Here is how it will be accomplished.
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Bethesda Inc. Sells Its Home Health Care Unit
Bethesda Inc. announced that it has agreed in principle to sell its subsidiary Consolidated Health S...Alliance For Integrated Value-Driven Healthcare Members Only
Report – Population Health: Managing Patient PopulationsER Visits Increase At Twice The Rate Of U.S. Population
Emergency visit rates have increased at twice the rate of growth of the U.S. population from 1997 to...$2 Million Allocated To Telehealth Programs For Rural Healthcare Grants
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has announced $32 million in funding to help improve access to healt...Obama Administration Awards $159.1 Million For Training Geriatric-Care Workers
Grants include new and continuing funding, build on multimillion dollar investments called for under...Hospital Compare Website Adds Outpatient Care And Inpatient Mortality And Readmissions At More Than 4,700 Hospitals Across The Nation
Important new information about the quality of care available in America’s outpatient and emergency ... Read more...CMS Provides Guidance On Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released a preliminary Q&A that summarizes an... Read more...More Than Half Of Americans Convey Their Preferences Regarding End-Of-Life Care
Fifty-seven percent of Americans have made their end-of-life care choices known, according to a surv... Read more...CMS Finalizes Requirements For The Medicare Electronic Health Records (EHR) Incentive Program
CMS announced a final rule to implement the provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act...
Read more...Medicare Advantage Is Reducing Preventable Hospital Readmissions For Seniors
Seniors in Medicare Advantage have lower risk-adjusted hospital readmission rates than patients in M... Read more...Florida Data Mining To Mitigate Medicaid Fraud – Will Other States Follow?
Attorney General Eric Holder and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said federal authorities are carryi...
Read more...CMS Invites States To Apply For ‘Medical Home’ Demonstration
CMS is accepting applications from states to participate in a demonstration project that will assess... Read more...Alliance Current Resources
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Benchmarking Your Angency's Share Of Home Care Discharges From Hospitals: Getting Data Beyond Home Care Compare To Increase Market Share To Sustain Growth
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OASIS-C, Post-Acute Reform And Bundled Payments: The Role Of Home Health In Assessing Risk For Hospitalizations Across The Continuum
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Disease Management And OASIS-C: Creating, Managing And Marketing Programs Across The Healthcare Continuum
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Falls Programs: The Secret To Preventing Hospitalizations And Decreasing Home Care Visit Utilization
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Pressure Ulcers And OASIS-C … Why Pressure Ulcers Are The Hot Topic For Post-Acute Care Reform And Bundled Payments
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Home Health CAHPS And Patient Satisfaction: Action Plans To Stay Ahead Of The Pack
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Using OASIS-C And Healthcare Reform As Marketing Tools
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OASIS-C, Value-Based Purchasing And Process Measures: Home Care’s Future To Post-Acute Reform
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Leadership Value Proposition: P4P, Re-Admissions, Falls, And Wound Care
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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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Special WEB Guest Article
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?
By: Elizabeth E. Hogue, Esq.
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Can Accountable Care Organizations Improve The Value Of Healthcare By Solving The Cost And Quality Quandaries?
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The 2010 Final PPS Rule It’s Not Just About Payments: Limitations On Changes Of Ownership And Reactivating Provider Numbers
By: Robert W. Markette, Jr., CHC
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