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When a program funded through state-only dollars is targeted for reduction or elimination, there is a possibility that it can be funded through Medicaid instead, notes Patricia MacTaggart, a lead research scientist and lecturer in the Health Policy Department at George Washington University in Washington, DC.
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For decades, a California long-term care program provided case management for about 12,000 elderly Medicaid clients who qualify for placement in a nursing facility but want to remain in the community, but it is now faced with total elimination.
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After the Multipurpose Senior Service Program (MSSP) was targeted for elimination in January 2011, the program's staff put together their own analysis to prove the cost savings achieved by the program, reports Eileen M. Koons, MSW, ACSW, director of Huntington Senior Care Network.
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Medicaid programs underfunded nursing facility care by $5.6 billion in 2010, paying $7.17 per hour per patient, less than the nation's current minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, according to an analysis from the American Health Care Association in Washington, DC.
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The Joint Commission can start accrediting psychiatric hospitals, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced in late February 2011.
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Increasing data show that variations in care have a negative impact on outcomes and costs some estimates are that almost a third of healthcare dollars are spent in a wasteful manner or go to overuse of the system.
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Most people have trouble planning the next week's dinners or their next vacation, let alone something that is two and a half years away.
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There are literally dozens of studies that enumerate some of the problems that plague patients as a result of imperfect transitions of care.
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On March 14, there was a big celebration at Mercy Memorial Hospital in Monroe, MI, attended by officials from the Michigan Hospital Association.
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Your current systems will need to be remediated if they will be used to check medical necessity for ICD-10 standards when they are implemented in October 2013, says Jeffrey Smith, RN, MBA, CPC, a New York City-based manager at Accenture Insight Driven Health, a management and technology consulting company.
