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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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When Nick Masi, PhD, director of Family Centered Care at Joe DiMÿ
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Consider evaluating educational materials, such as an educational sheet, self-care instructions, or an informational website, with a usability test instead of a focus group, says Dana Botka, manager of customer communications with the Washington Department of Labor and Industries in Olympia.
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Once the details are ironed out, health care reform will offer great opportunities for case managers in a variety of settings, says Margaret Leonard, MS, RN-B, C, FNP, senior vice president for clinical services at Hudson Health Plan and outgoing president of the Case Management Society of America (CMSA).
