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More than $15 million in savings was shared with 166 home health agencies throughout the country as a result of performance in the first year of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Home Health Pay for Performance (P4P) demonstration.
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After two successful pilot projects aimed at reducing readmission rates, Capital District Physicians' Health Plan Inc. (CDPHP) has implemented a program aimed at ensuring that its Medicare Advantage members get the care they need after discharge to avoid a return trip to the hospital.
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A survey of 219 home health agencies participating in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Home Health Pay for Performance (P4P) demonstration doesn't show dramatic differences between treatment group agencies and control group agencies in the approaches taken to improve quality of care, but it does give a good picture of the range of strategies used by HHAs.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Home Health Pay for Performance (P4P) demonstration started in January 2008 and concluded December 2009.
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The United Kingdom leads the world in the quality of care it provides dying people, and it leaves many other developed nations behind, according to a new study.
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today required Baxter Healthcare Corp. to take specific steps to carry out the April 2010 recall of all Colleague Volumetric Infusion Pumps (CVIPs) and to provide customers with a refund, a replacement pump, or lease termination.
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The Woman's Hospital of Texas, based in Houston, is offering caregivers in several units a "compassion fatigue" program, designed to target a little-known stress disorder that its proponents say prevents providers from giving their patients optimal care.
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Even though the number of self-pay and underinsured patients continues to grow at Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights, IL, the patient access department set a goal of increasing emergency department (ED) collections by 50%.
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If a patient requests financial assistance at University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, he or she can expect to be asked for some very specific information about finances more specific than that previously requested. This makes it harder for patients to "game the system."
