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Some States Provide Funding When SDOH Used to Improve Quality
One health system is finding that the state it operates in is willing to support the use of social determinants of health to address health issues affecting the community.
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Efforts Underway to Reduce Medicare Spending, Meet Standards for Spending Per Beneficiary
With the healthcare industry’s increased focus on value-based purchasing, debate continues as to whether hospitals are meeting standards for total Medicare Spending Per Beneficiary.
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Age-Friendly Health Systems Initiative Improves Delivery, Quality of Care for Older Patients
With thousands of people across the United States reaching age 65 and older every day, hospitals and health systems are looking for ways to improve care for these patients and better suit their needs.
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Strategies for How Case Managers Can Truly ‘Hear’ Patients’ Stories
Case managers have the power to help their patients change their own narratives about their illnesses and injuries.
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Case Managers Can Help Patients Improve Health Outlook
Case managers can learn skills to help patients change their concerns about illness or injury through developing a functional life story that teaches optimism.
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In-house Physician Advisors Can Help Case Managers
Physician advisors, once associated primarily with payers and external vendors, can help case managers and other physicians with utilization management, discharge activities, and documentation accuracy.
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New Year’s Resolutions for 2019
With a new year comes a time to set some goals to help your business succeed. Here are a few to get you started.
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Finding Experienced OR Nurses Is a Challenge ASCs Should Tackle
ASCs may be at an advantage over hospital ORs when it comes to hiring nurses. For instance, the work hours in an ambulatory OR are more desirable. Still, both hospital and ASC OR settings will continue to see increasing shortages of nurses. ASCs will experience this problem because of their increasing case volume and rise in OR nursing demand.
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Collaboration to Standardize Care and Quality Improvement in Joint Replacement
The Joint Commission (TJC) and the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) have created a new collaboration for Total Hip and Knee Replacement (THKR) certification. AAOS brings clinical expertise to the collaboration while TJC contributes standards development and performance measurement requirements.
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ASCs Continue Struggling With False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Statute
Some ASCs shell out millions of dollars to settle False Claims Act or federal Anti-Kickback Statute violations. These often are the result of whistleblower reports and could have been caused by ASCs not conducting proper research before selling shares in the business. Other times, ASCs end up in compliance trouble often because leaders were not cautious when choosing tactics to improve their competitiveness in the healthcare marketplace.