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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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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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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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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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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 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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Stop smoking drug Chantix rates stronger warning from FDA; Type 2 diabetes surgery on the way?; Vytorin study inconclusive; Influenza A virus found resistant to Tamiflu; FDA actions.
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In this study, goldenberg and colleagues from the MADIT-II study analyzed risk factors for mortality in that trial. MADIT-II was a randomized trial of ICD versus conventional therapy, which included 1232 patients with documented previous myocardial infarctions who had an ejection fraction of ≤ 30%.
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It remains debatable as to whether individuals who present with a non-ST-segment elevation MI (NSTEMI) or acute coronary syndrome (ACS) should be managed with a selective or elective invasive strategy vs an approach performing angiography in all patients.
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