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In sharp contrast to adults, the number of uninsured children declined by 800,000 during the first 12 months of the recession, from December 2007 through December 2008, according to a December 2009 report from the Washington, DC-based Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, "Protecting Children During the Recession: Spotlight on State Health Coverage Efforts." Outreach efforts by state Medicaid programs are a big reason why.
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A Medicaid provider may have spent a great deal of time and money to adopt electronic health record (EHR) technology, but can he or she demonstrate that this tool meets the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) criteria for "meaningful use"? If not, that provider won't qualify for federal incentives for EHR, enacted under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
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Nonpayment policies for preventable adverse events are valuable to motivate quality improvement efforts, and payment should not be expected for a bad outcome that is unnecessary or avoidable. These are two things about which most providers, payers, and the public can agree.
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Even during the recession, Washington state has maintained its multifaceted approach to outreach.
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As federal funds are beginning to flow to state Medicaid programs for Health Information Technology (HIT) planning, there is an unprecedented opportunity for care system transformation. While it's not a "given" that all states will apply for the funding, they are exploring a variety of options to maximize their access.
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Families were not putting into practice strategies for weight loss given by clinicians at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics in Madison to help overweight teens.
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As part of its focus on prevention as a successful strategy to improve the quality and lower the cost of health care, Independence Blue Cross has launched a program targeting members who are at risk for cardiometabolic syndrome, a condition that may increase a person's chance of developing heart disease and diabetes.
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People with chronic conditions who received telephonic disease management coaching based on their level of health activation had fewer visits to the hospital and emergency department than people coached in the usual way, a study has shown.
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HIV clinicians often work with patients who have such an overwhelming number of barriers to optimal treatment adherence that it's difficult to know where an adherence intervention should begin.
