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Don’t Do the ‘Same Old Thing’ When It Comes to Bundled Payments
Case managers can’t just keep doing the same old thing when bundled payments arrangements begin. Because the hospital is taking a financial risk by participating, case managers must ensure patients receive everything they need in a timely manner and move through the continuum quickly and safely.
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Improve Your Outcomes by Reducing Variations in Care
With bundled payments and other quality initiatives, hospitals should constantly improve their processes. A multidisciplinary team from the hospital works with community physicians and post-acute providers to develop protocols.
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Use Data to Identify Opportunities, Monitor Progress to Make Bundled Payments Work
Success under bundled payments requires using past data to identify opportunities for improvement and analyzing current trends to uncover problematic situations and make changes in real time.
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It Takes Collaboration and Consistency for Success in Bundled Payments
It takes a lot of planning and oversight for hospitals to succeed financially under bundled payment initiatives, which work best when representatives from all levels of the healthcare continuum work together.
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Get On the Bundled Payments Bandwagon — Even if Your Hospital Isn’t Participating
Even though the latest rounds of bundled payments are voluntary, the shift toward value-based reimbursements continues — meaning hospitals and their case management staffs still should focus on improving patient care, reducing readmissions, and containing costs at the same time.
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Ultrasound-guided Nerve Blocks in the Emergency Department
Ultrasound-guided nerve blocks offer effective and safe alternatives to systemic analgesics to manage pain in the ED. This article reviews the literature supporting the use of ultrasound-guided nerve blocks in the ED and describes how to perform some of the most basic nerve blocks.
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Chiropractic Spinal Manipulation for Migraine
Chiropractic spinal manipulation offers no benefit over placebo for migraineurs.
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Noncow Milk for Young Children: An Observational Study Regarding Height
Data from more than 5,000 Canadian children reveals a dose-dependent association between drinking noncow milk and lower height in early childhood.
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Plant-pharmaceutical Interactions in the Scientific Literature
Case reports and observational studies revealed that certain medical conditions and a select few botanical medicines have adverse plant-pharmaceutical interactions.
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B Vitamins and Lung Cancer Risk
These researchers investigated the use of supplemental vitamin B6, folate, and B12 and the risk of lung cancer in 77,118 participants in the Vitamins and Lifestyle cohort, finding an increased risk of lung cancer in men, which was exacerbated by smoking.