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Though more hospitals are reporting infection rates publicly, a new report from The Leapfrog Group shows that more than half of hospitals across the country still grapple with sometimes deadly healthcare-associated infections.
Medicare's policy now has broad support from health providers and patient groups, but neither physicians nor the American Medical Association foresee a surge in end-of-life planning among Medicare's more than 50 million enrollees.
Acute care management provider CEP America is partnering with three California healthcare providers -- Sierra View Medical Center, Neighborhood Healthcare in Escondido, and the Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County -- to deliver medical services to patients beginning this month.
Registered nurses at Kaiser Permanente's flagship Los Angeles Medical Center on Tuesday began a seven-day strike that has the support of presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, according to the California Nurses Association.
Population health outfit Caradigm has announced it will be forming what it calls a Care Transformation Team that it claims will help improve the outcomes of population health initiatives for the providers it serves.
Hospitals are increasingly turning to credit checks to determine both an individual's ability to pay and to mine data on their patient population's health.
Not only does a hospital collect more revenue from patients by allowing them to fill their prescriptions on-site, but evidence suggests that this approach cuts down on readmissions, further helping health systems save money.
Of the 3,651 new codes, 97 percent will update the cardiovascular and lower joint body systems. There will also be new codes for a face transplant, hand transplant and donor organ perfusion, CMS said.
Texas Republican Sen.Ted Cruz promised during a nighttime speech in his home state that he would kill the Affordable Care Act, "abolish" the Internal Revenue Service, stop amnesty and rebuild the military.
Under the new system, CMS estimates it saved Medicare approximately $3.6 billion between 2013 and 2015.