Hospital Case Management – September 1, 2016
September 1, 2016
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Bundled Payments Take a Lot of Work — So You Better Start Now
CMS has given providers only a short time frame in which to go live with their bundled payments programs — which makes it difficult for providers to prepare.
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Provider Partnerships Must go Beyond Collaboration, Include Data Sharing
The significant role that post-acute care plays in bundled payments makes it crucial for hospitals to identify providers that perform the best and enter into agreements with them to establish a high-performing post-acute network
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BPCI Initiative Cuts Readmissions, Costs for Patients Having Cardiac Valve Surgery
After Vanderbilt University Medical Center began a bundled payment project for patients who had cardiac valve replacement or valve repair surgery, readmissions for those patients dropped by 20% and the cost of care decreased at the same time.
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Health System Takes Part in Bundled Payments to Learn for the Future
When CMS announced the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative, Sentara Healthcare chose to participate in a big way and now has implemented bundled payments across 12 hospitals, covering 180-plus DRGs.
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CMS Launches Oncology Care Bundled Payment Program
Nearly 200 physician groups and 17 payers are participating in the CMS Oncology Care Model aimed at lowering the cost of cancer care by giving physicians financial and performance accountability for episodes of care involving administration of chemotherapy.
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Re-Engineering Your Case Management Department: It’s Simple, It’s Just Not Easy, Part 2
This month, we will review the elements to be considered when re-engineering an acute care case management model or department.