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On August 1, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule regarding the hospital inpatient prospective payment system for FY 2007 that differs substantially from the proposed rule released earlier this year.
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New data from Premier Inc.'s pay-for-performance demonstration project with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) indicate that improving the care of pneumonia and heart bypass patients alone can save as much as $1 billion a year, as well as thousands of lives.
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Facilities that are participating in the Premier/CMS demonstration project already are seeing the benefits in improved quality.
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A new program at Doctors Hospital in Coral Gables, FL, helps move patients seamlessly from one department or unit to another, helping address the challenging issue of handoffs.
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According to Kforce Professional Staffing, the national demand for health care labor coupled with the overhauling of the International Coding Directory (ICD) has created a market ready and waiting for coding professionals.
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In a selected population of patients with known COPD who were hospitalized with acute worsening of respiratory symptoms but did not have usual signs of an infection or other specific process, 25% were found to have pulmonary embolism.
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Pregnancy is a prothrombotic state which is rarely associated with ischemic arterial stroke. However, when a stroke occurs, especially in later pregnancy, the options for therapy may be limited.
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Time to primary PCI is strongly associated with mortality risk and is important regardless of time from symptom onset to presentation and regardless of baseline risk of mortality.
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Rescue PCI in the setting of early fibrinolytic failure improves mortality, but this is tempered by a possible increase in the risk of thromboembolic stroke.
