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OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria, IL, redesigned its case management department to improve efficiency and clearly define the role of each clinician.
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U.S. public health authorities urged health providers to raise their awareness about Ebola virus as two American health care workers became ill with the often fatal disease while caring for infected patients in Liberia. At about the same time, a Liberian man became ill with Ebola and traveled by plane to Lagos, Nigeria, where he died in a hospital.
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At Carolinas HealthCare System, an Advanced Illness Management (AIM) team targets patients with multiple health issues and frequent hospitalizations and emergency department visits.
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Although the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) asked for suggestions on alternative methods of identifying and paying for short hospital stays, the agency did not clarify the two-midnight rule in the Inpatient Prospective Payment System final rule for 2015.
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A significant portion of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) 2015 Inpatient Prospective Payment System final rule focuses on quality and raises the percentage of the Medicare base payment hospitals can lose if they perform poorly.
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As part of its mission to cut costs and improve quality, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has launched a pilot project that pays a fixed price for health services by multiple providers over a period of time.
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With the introduction of genetic testing that is increasingly affordable, more patients are approaching their health care providers about such testing or with results from their direct-to-consumer genetic tests. Research findings linking MTHFR gene polymorphisms and disease risk have been conflicting. This has led to challenges as far as interpreting such data.
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