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Every year, Colorado Medicaid spends $20 million on hospital readmissions that occur within 30 days. This fact was brought to light as a result of a comprehensive data analysis done a year ago. It is one of the reasons that readmissions have become a key priority for the program.
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The Medicaid and Medicare populations call for two very different strategies for preventing hospital readmissions, according to Michael Birnbaum, director of policy at United Hospital Fund's Medicaid Institute in New York City.
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Over half of nursing facility residents are dual-eligibles. This means they must contend with a system of care that often is not well-coordinated or efficient.
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California's Medi-Cal Eligibility System (MEDS) will need to be completely replaced to accommodate the changes necessary to implement health care reform, according to Vivian Auble, a senior consultant at Health Management Associates in Sacramento and former chief of California's Medi-Cal eligibility division. This could cost up to $250 million, not including costs to establish and operate the state insurance exchange, or to develop a new application and enrollment portal.
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One of every 10 adult Medicaid patients hospitalized in 2007 for a medical condition other than childbirth had to be readmitted at least once within 30 days, according to an April 2010 report from the Rockville, MD-based Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), All-Cause Hospital Readmission Rates among Non-Elderly Medicaid Patients, 2007. The report uses statistics generated from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) State Inpatient Databases for 10 states.
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Cancer can be a life-altering disease, but Tammy Zeller, a mother with a career, wanted to keep her routine as normal as possible during treatment.
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Assistive technology can make life better for everyone and help people live independently in a safe environment, whether they have a catastrophic illness or injury or are elderly with cognitive and/or vision issues, says Hunter Ramseur, MEd, LPC, CDMS, ATP, principal of Atlanta-based Assistive Technology Consulting LLC.
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At DuBois (PA) Regional Medical Center, employees were failing N95 fit tests in alarming numbers. In the cardiology department, about 46% of employees failed fit-tests even after trying a variety of models and sizes. Things weren't much better in anesthesia (35%), cardiovascular ICU (34%), or the emergency department (26%).
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