Hospice evolved from the need to provide medical and social support to terminally ill patients in the last weeks of their lives.
Colorado Community Health Network policy director Polly Anderson tells State Health Watch that anecdotal information from the 15 plans in the network indicates the study accurately reflects the situation the Colorado plans are experiencing.
Under terms of the 2003 Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, Medicare Advantage plans can specialize in serving Medicare beneficiaries who are dually enrolled in state Medicaid programs, are residents of nursing facilities or similar institutions, or who have severe or disabling chronic conditions.
Morton Plant Mease Health Care in Clearwater, FL, has found an effective way to fill case management vacancies with qualified candidates.
To improve health literacy the use of trained interpreters must be common practice when health care practitioners are communicating with patients who are not proficient in English.
