Showing posts with label CMS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CMS. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 6, 2013

ANA Recommends APRNs be Included Providers in Plans on Insurance Exchanges

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The American Nurses Association (ANA) has recommended to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) that health insurers looking...
Thursday, December 15, 2011

Hospitals Try To Control Readmissions, Even When It Hurts Profits

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Yesterday, Fred Mogul, of WNYC , in collaboration with NPR and Kaiser Health News , reported how hospitals nationwide have implemented a var...
Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Reflecting On Dr. Berwick's Tenure As CMS Administrator

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In this month's edition of Health Affairs, Harris Meyer wrote a fascinating piece reflecting on Dr. Don Berwick's short tenure as th...
Monday, November 7, 2011

A New Tool to Compare Hospital Performance

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Last week, Tom Avril and Dylan Purcell, of the Philadelphia Inquirer, reported on the Center of Medicare & Medicaid Services' hospi...
Tuesday, April 12, 2011

HHS Partnership for Patients Initiative

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Today, the Department of Health and Human Services announced their commitment to use $1 billion in new funding from the Affordable Care Act ...
Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Infusion Nurses Keep Patients Safer, Help Reduce Healthcare Costs

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has made reducing hospital-acquired infections a priority by refusing to reimburse ho...
Friday, August 14, 2009

Group Launches Online Tool to Help Nurses Avoid 'Never Events'

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Health care information services provider Elsevier has developed an online tool designed to help nurses prevent the 10 "never events...
Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Children's View on Quality Should be Considered

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Early in his term President Barack Obama signed into law the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA). CHIPRA promis...
Thursday, June 18, 2009

NICHE Web Based Learning Series Presents: "The Never Events Series: The Experts Respond"

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Followers of this blog may be interested in an upcoming web event sponsored by NICHE: The Never Events Series: Focus on Physical Restraints ...