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In what the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association (ASCA) is labeling a victory in the final ASC quality reporting elements, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) accepted the association's proposal to exclude any secondary payer claims from the data completeness calculation.
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Passport Health Plan's Mommy Steps program helps at-risk pregnant Medicaid recipients get the care and psychosocial help they need to overcome the obstacles to a healthy pregnancy.
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By meeting at-risk pregnant women face-to-face in their physician's office, a case manager from BlueCross BlueShield is able to successfully engage the Medicaid recipients in case management and work to meet their needs throughout the pregnancy.
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The old saying "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," couldn't be more appropriate than when it comes to preterm births.
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Emergency department administrators are well aware that crowding in the ED is associated with poorer patient outcomes, longer hospital stays, and decreased patient satisfaction.
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Select Health of South Carolina is collaborating with community partners to ensure that pregnant women in their First Choice health plan's Medicaid population have full-term, healthy babies.
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It must seem as though the number of important things to read and digest that come across a quality manager's desk is never-ending.
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The amount of reimbursement hospitals receive will be tied to physicians' ability to communicate with patients, manage their pain, and explain medications, as a result of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS)'s Hospital Value-based Purchasing Program, which will affect Medicare reimbursements as of October 2012, notes Marshall H. Chin, MD, MPH, Richard Parrillo Family Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago.
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"We are not completely sure what happened at this time. We are investigating, and will let you know what we learn as soon as possible."
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Is it ethical for a physician to pray with a patient? The question that should be asked instead is, "On what grounds would praying with a patient be ethically problematic?"
