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While the amount of money Medicare spends on chronically ill patients varies greatly from state to state, researchers at Dartmouth Medical School found no correlation between higher spending and better health.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will extend coverage for the home use of oxygen to Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in a CMS-approved clinical trial sponsored by the National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute.
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Having a dedicated social worker who works with local homeless shelters to place patients has significantly reduced the length of stay for homeless patients at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia.
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A new rule being proposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and drawing criticism from case managers who have reviewed it would require hospitals to alert all Medicare patients 24 hours before discharge that their costs probably won't be covered if they stay longer, and that they have until noon the next day to request a review of the discharge decision.
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When older, frail patients are hospitalized at Akron City Hospital in Akron, OH, they're likely to be placed on a home-like unit with carpeted floors, a common area with a parlor and a stocked kitchen their families can use, better lighting, and furniture designed so older people can easily get in and out of it.
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In the process of collecting restraint data, you learn that certain physicians are not signing daily orders. Other data being collected show that patient education is being documented 97 times out of 100.
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Care navigators meet with EmblemHealth members at primary care practices and coordinate all their non-clinical needs.
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Like many hospitals around the country, Mercy San Juan Medical Center in Carmichael, CA, has seen a steady increase in patients presenting to the ED with mental health problems. Officials attribute the problem to dwindling resources for mental health care and, in particular, the closing of an inpatient psychiatric unit in the region in 2009. Many of the patients who previously would have been stabilized in the inpatient unit are now showing up in the ED.
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Case managers are beginning to get the recognition they deserve and National Case Management Week Oct. 12-18 is the time to celebrate all the contributions that case managers bring to the healthcare arena.