Showing posts with label medicare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label medicare. Show all posts
Monday, March 10, 2014

One in Three Nursing Home Patients Are Harmed By Medical Errors

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A recent government survey found that approximately one-third of patients who were discharged from hospitals to skilled nursing facilities...
Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Hospitals May Get Funds Cut for High Readmission Rates

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Hospitals could see their Medicare payments docked as a result of Affordable Care Act (ACA) reforms that aim to reduce patient readmissions ...
Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Crackdown on Readmissions

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Yesterday, Kaiser Health News published an article which explains the recent strategies employed by the federal government to reduce hospita...
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...
Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Study Shows That Nursing Home Medicaid Recipients Have Higher Hospitalization Rates

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In a recently published study in the journal, Medical Care Research and Review , Helena Temkin-Greener, PhD, MPH, and her colleagues found t...
Monday, August 29, 2011

Clinics Focused on Medicare Patients Making a Difference

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Over the weekend, Rosemary Shinohara, of the Anchorage Daily News , reported about the recently opened Alaska Medicare Clinic. The clinic w...
Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Health Care Taps The Brake On Job Creation

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On Monday, Reed Abelson & Katie Thomas, of the New York Times , wrote an interesting guest piece in The Seattle Times discussing the he...