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How many times a day do you hear or read the word "safety"?
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Laura Sellers, director of operations at Skyland Trail, an 80-bed behavioral health hospital in Atlanta, has gone through 10 Joint Commission surveys.
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The proposed rules for accountable care organizations (ACOs) were released at the end of March, and Donald Berwick, MD, administrator for the Centers For Medicare & Medicaid Services, lost no time writing about their potential import in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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In today's healthcare environment, as patients are being discharged from the hospital sicker and quicker than ever before, some patients are in and out of the hospital as if they are going through a revolving door, says Catherine M. Mullahy, RN, BS, CRRN, CCM, president and founder of Mullahy & Associates, a case management training and consulting company based in Huntington, NY.
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Evidence is mounting that a very small group of high-cost chronically ill clients accounts for the lion's share of costs in Medicaid programs.
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Delaware's Medicaid agency has been designated as the lead agency for the purpose of administering federal funds for planning the state's health benefit exchange, reports Rita M. Landgraf, secretary of the state's Department of Health and Social Services.
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Iowa Medicaid's disease management program, implemented in July 2010, has a focus that's a "little bit unique," according to Leslie Schechtman, DO, medical director of Iowa Medicaid Enterprise, Member Services. "We used a stratification methodology."
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Health homes are a model of care that many states are very interested in moving toward, according to Julia Paradise, associate director of the Kaiser Family Foundation's Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured (KCMU). Ms. Paradise is author of the January 2011 brief, Medicaid's New "Health Home" Option.
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States are pursuing a number of reform models for changing the way health care providers are paid, reports Deborah Bachrach, special counsel at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, a health law and consulting firm in New York City, and former New York Medicaid director
