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CMS Cuts Bundled Payment Program, Tweaks Quality Initiatives
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposed sweeping changes in three bundled payment initiatives, and tweaked some of the pay-for-performance measures that affect hospital reimbursement.
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Collaboration Moves Long-stay Patients to Next Level of Care
When NYC Health+Hospitals’ acute care hospitals and post-acute facilities began collaborating in a pilot project, they were able to place challenging patients in the appropriate level of care — a program that is on track to save the public hospital system $3.5 million per year when it is rolled out systemwide.
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Got Challenging Patients? Try These Discharge Tips
Every case management leader should be educating their teams on how to deal with complex and difficult-to-discharge patients so the case managers will know what to do when they face a specific issue.
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Refer Difficult-to-place Patients to a Discharge Planning Specialist
The changes in healthcare reimbursement and the increase in patients with complex needs and inadequate or no funding have created a huge workload for case managers and social workers.
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Start Early to Overcome the Challenges of Complex Patients
Timely and safe discharges are more important than ever in today’s healthcare world, but an increase in complex patients makes creating a discharge plan a challenge.
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Educate Registrars and Patients on New Medicare ID Cards
Patient access departments need revamped processes to prepare for new Medicare ID cards without Social Security numbers.
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Reader Questions From the Summer
This summer has been busier than most, perhaps because of the new political climate and the buzz of anticipated changes in the nation’s healthcare, and many readers have submitted questions.
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ASC’s ‘Pit Crew’ Brings NASCAR Speed to Turnovers
An ASC won a national award for its quality improvement and efficiency project to reduce average operating room turnover time, which was 22.8 minutes.
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Considering Adding Bundled Payments? Here’s What You Need to Know
The key thing for ASC directors to know about bundled payments is that these are developed to reduce healthcare costs, improve outcome accountability, and create situations in which payers and providers share risk, savings, and costs.
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Bundled Payment Models Growing Slowly in ASCs’ World
Bundled payments are a small part of the business for most ambulatory surgery centers, but the model is catching on and could be a major future trend in surgery reimbursement strategies.