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An IT-supported pilot program in New York's Hudson Valley that embeds a network of nurse care managers in primary practices to catch patients who fall off physicians' radar, has helped close gaps in care and improved the health status of these patients.
Following the release of a financial report last week by the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4), the Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP) has said that the state's hospitals will be facing an uncertain financial future.
The American Medical Association (AMA) has asked the federal government to delay the implementation deadline for ICD-10 for another year from Oct. 1, 2013, until Oct. 1, 2015, "at a minimum."
Two separate studies by researchers at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, show a correlation between hospital readmission rates and how full the hospital was at the time of discharge, which suggests that many patients may have been sent home earlier than necessary.
States must provide details to the federal government by Nov. 16 – just 10 days after the presidential election – on how they will run online insurance marketplaces, according to guidance released May 16.
With Washington state's gubernatorial primary is three months away, the race is already taking a health reform twist as one of the Republican candidates is among the Attorneys General suing the federal government over President Obama's health reform law and, in turn, just this month is now facing a lawsuit himself by a group of women for doing just that.
According to research new research from the American Heart Association, the differences in regional readmission rates for heart failure are more closely connected with the availability of care and socioeconomics rather than with hospital performance or a patient's degree of illness.
The states of Illinois, Nevada, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee and Washington will receive $181 million in grants from the Health and Human Services Department to help them establish health insurance exchanges.
Conifer Health Solutions, a subsidiary of Tenet Healthcare Corp., announced yesterday a 10-year revenue cycle management deal for 56 Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) hospitals that will also see CHI acquire a minority stake in Conifer.
According to research that was presented last week at the American Heart Association's Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Scientific Sessions 2012, the differences in regional readmission rates for heart failure are more closely connected with the availability of care and socioeconomics rather than with hospital performance or a patient's degree of illness.