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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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If hospitals are going to avoid penalties for 30-day readmissions, they need to start now to identify their own patterns of what caused the readmissions and use that information to improve the discharge plan, suggests Jackie Birmingham, RN, MS, CMAC, vice president of professional services for Curaspan Health Group, a Newton, MA, health care technology and services firm.
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When the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) analyzed hospital readmission rates to post them on the Hospital Compare web site, the lowest heart failure readmission rate in the nation was at the Baylor Jack and Jane Hamilton Heart and Vascular Hospital.
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In an effort to clarify what had been confusing in the past, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) changed the wording of the observation orders and admission status, effective July 1.
