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Diabetes Insulin Protocol is Most Useful with Technology
A telehealth case management program’s use of a diabetes insulin adjustment protocol works well with technology to keep data fresh, and a commitment to assessing and adjusting as needed, according to protocol administrators.
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Diabetes Protocol is Recipe for Success in Telehealth Case Management Program
Case management can be combined with treatment-specific protocols to quickly react to patients’ medical problems, resulting in better chronic disease maintenance, administrators of a telehealth program found.
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Here’s How HealthConnections Gives Case Managers Ways to Help Patients
WellCare’s HealthConnections program helps case managers provide social service support to their patients.
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Multistate Database Connects Case Managers with Community
What if finding precisely the right answer was as simple as putting a word in a search engine?
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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.