Showing posts with label medicare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label medicare. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Action For Better Healthcare » Finally a roadmap for a coordinated approach to patient care

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) released their long anticipated regulations dealing with ten pages of the 2,200-page March 2010...
Friday, April 15, 2011

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

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CMS Programs & Information CMS Programs & Information--> Medicare P...
Monday, April 4, 2011

The five hospital factors that affect heart attack survival, Science Daily

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Until now, little has been known about the factors that may influence this variation in death rates. The Yale team reviewed 11 hospitals th...
Thursday, March 17, 2011

Don't cut Medicaid, fund it better - CNN.com

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Editor's note: Dr. Aaron E. Carroll is an associate professor of pediatrics at the Indiana University School of Medicine and the direc...
Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Sisters accused of health fraud nabbed in Colombia | Reuters

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Two sisters accused of falsifying health care claims to defraud the U.S. government of millions of dollars were nabbed in Colombia and retu...
Tuesday, March 15, 2011

$4 drug programs could save economy billions: study | Reuters

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U.S. consumers could save billions of dollars by filling prescriptions for inexpensive generic drugs at stores such as Wal-Mart and Target,...
Monday, March 14, 2011

Hospitals Could Save Millions By Eliminating Five Hospital-Acquired Conditions

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An average 200-bed hospital could save approximately $2 million annually if it eliminates common but high-cost hospital-acquired conditions...
Monday, February 28, 2011

Governors: Medicaid More A Budget Buster Than Ever : NPR

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The federal government and the states have shared the cost of Medicaid, the health insurance program for some 60 million low-income America...
Sunday, February 20, 2011

Medical News: Operation Targets $225M in Healthcare Fraud - in Public Health & Policy, Medicare from MedPage Today

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By Joyce Frieden, News Editor, MedPage Today Published: February 18, 2011 ...
Sunday, February 6, 2011

Hospice Under Medicare | Accepting Hospice Under Medicare | Caring.com

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Hospice is a type of care that focuses on relieving pain and other suffering for patients nearing the end of life. To qualify for Medicare-...
Thursday, February 3, 2011

CMS Initiative Will Link Incentives With Reduced Infections, Readmissions - California Healthline

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CMS is planning a "major multi-year financial commitment" involving Medicare, Medicaid and private insurers that aims to curb hos...
Friday, January 7, 2011

More young people are winding up in nursing homes - Yahoo! News

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Adam Martin doesn't fit in here. No one else in this nursing home wears Air Jordans. No one else has stacks of music videos by 2Pac and...
Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Hospital care easier, faster with standing orders - CNN.com

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My patient one day, a spry 80-year-old, started to cough and feel short of breath during a blood transfusion: classic signs of a transfusio...
Sunday, December 26, 2010

Guides help recovering patients find long-term care | The Salt Lake Tribune

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An uncomfortable truth for anyone facing disability for a year or more: If you go into a nursing home, you might never get out. Under pa...
Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Hospital care fatal for some Medicare patients - USATODAY.com

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An estimated 15,000 Medicare patients die each month in part because of care they receive in the hospital, says a government study release...
Monday, November 15, 2010

Doctors who order tests for their own financial gain-KevinMD.com

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Doctors who order tests for their own financial gain 6 comments in Physician practice by Kohar Jones, MD “What a shame,” said my eighty eig...