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Community Partnership Provides Home Visits for At-risk Population
Rockdale Medical Center in suburban Atlanta teamed up with community partners on an initiative that has reduced readmissions and ED visits by high-risk, medically underserved patients.
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Turn that Little Black Book into a Comprehensive Database
With payers’ increasing emphasis on costs over the entire episode of care, case managers need to expand their address books to add resources throughout the community.
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Start Now to Identify Gaps in Transitions Before the Hospital is at Risk
Even if your hospital has little or no financial risk for what happens to patients after treatment in an acute care setting, case managers should connect with community organizations that provide the types of resources your patients need.
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Going ‘Beyond the Hospital Walls’ May Be Further than You Thought
With new initiatives that put hospitals at risk for what happens to patients for as long as 90 days after discharge, case managers need to look at resources in the community when creating a discharge plan.
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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.