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Health care providers frequently have misconceptions about legal requirements of end-of-life care. By educating providers about how to make decisions when people lose capacity, fewer formal ethics or legal consults will be needed.
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The Affordable Care Act invested significantly in comparative effectiveness research (CER), but at the same time, states that no decisions coming out of CER should determine what treatments are covered by insurers, notes Norman Daniels, PhD, professor of ethics and population health at Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, MA.
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While the vast majority of gamete donations are made anonymously, a growing number of countries are enacting laws allowing children access to identifying information about their gamete donor.
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Patient sitters are a somewhat controversial strategy for reducing patient falls, with many administrators arguing that the cost of paying someone to sit in a room and watch a patient all day cannot be justified.
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Patients released from one hospital and readmitted to another within 30 days are more likely to die within the next month than those readmitted to the same hospital, according to a study from Canada.
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WellCare Health Plans case managers meet face to face with dual eligible members and conduct an assessment that looks at the individuals living environment and social support system, as well as medical and behavioral health issues.
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Network Health is participating in a demonstration project that integrates Medicare and Medicaid benefits for individuals ages 21 to 64.
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A common refrain of ED administrators is that when it comes to patient flow, there is only so much they can do to eliminate wait times when the upper floors cannot quickly accommodate admissions from the ED.
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Individuals who are dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid have complex medical and social service needs, and many also have behavioral health issues, making coordination of care a challenge.
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UCares care coordinators are the hub for communication among providers treating the Minneapolis health plans dual eligible members enrolled in one of two care plans depending on their age.