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The Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the primary enforcer of fraud and abuse prohibitions, has issued another Advisory Opinion about so-called "pre-operative" activities of home health agencies.
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An asthma management program that includes telephonic case management, home visits, and physician incentives has saved money and earned accolades for Priority Health, a health plan company based in Grand Rapids, MI.
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has posted follow-up information for an issue raised in a Feb. 20 open door forum for home health, hospice, and durable medical equipment organizations.
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Increasing the percentage of patients who show improvement in dyspnea from the 2005 baseline score of 57.6% to 73% in November 2007 earned a certificate of achievement from the Oklahoma Foundation for Medical Quality (OFMQ) for Sequoyah Memorial Homecare-Home Health in Sallisaw, OK.
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It is not easy to create significant change in health care but 78 million baby boomers may be the impetus for home health agencies to change their approach to service, according to experts interviewed by Hospital Home Health.
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Face-to-face case management for members at high risk for health care exacerbations has paid off for Great-West Healthcare, a Greenwood Village, CO, health plan that serves as a third-party administrator for about 6,000 self-insured employer groups.
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The final package of best practice intervention tools for transitional care coordination is now available from the Home Health Quality Improvement Organization Support Center.
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This multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of hydrocortisone replacement in septic shock aimed to evaluate 28-day mortality in non-responders to corticotropin stimulation.
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Trauma surgeons at the Regional Medical Center at Memphis carried out a randomized clinical trial comparing a continuous ethanol infusion with a protocol of scheduled diazepam administration for the prevention and control of severe alcohol withdrawal syndrome (AWS) among patients admitted to their ICU following trauma.
