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Are rising health care costs a worry at your workplace?
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Members who received a post-discharge visit from a physician or a nurse practitioner experienced 20% to 30% fewer readmissions than patients who received only telephonic care management during a pilot project by XLHealth, a Baltimore-based provider of health plan solutions for Medicare beneficiaries with special needs, according to John Mach, MD, XLHealth's chief medical officer.
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Seniors covered by BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee's Medicare Advantage plan are guided through the end-of-life processes by case managers who empower the members with the education, resources, and assistance they need to make their own decisions about what kind of what kind of care they want to receive at the end of life.
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Health plan collaborates with vascular surgeons, home health nurses
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The Joint Commission has launched its Leading Practice Library, a complimentary tool available only to Joint Commission-accredited organizations.
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Being a person of a self-assessed "up" mentality, I notice trends that give me pause. Consider the following:
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By taking a proactive approach to patient status and instituting a series of checks and balances, Good Samaritan Hospital in Dayton, OH, keeps denials at a minimum.
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As talk of reimbursement reform and pay for performance escalates and health care stakeholders look at ways to improve patient access and outcomes while reducing waste and costs, payers and providers are joining together to create accountable care organizations (ACOs), partnerships that agree to be accountable for the quality, costs, and overall care of a patient population.
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IRBs at academic research centers often review international infectious disease research that can raise red flags regarding privacy, confidentiality, and vulnerability.
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Americans' differences in income, race/ethnicity, gender, and other social attributes make a difference in how likely they are to be healthy, sick, or die prematurely, according to a news release issued on a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).