SGR Repeal and the End of Fee for Service Payments: A New Era for Forward Thinking Physician Groups
CIVHC Director of Stakeholder Relations
The perennial "Doc Fix" debate is nearing an end. On April 14th, the Senate voted overwhelmingly (92-8) to repeal the sustainable growth rate (SGR) and implement a new payment model for physicians participating in Medicare. The House approved the bill last month with an unusually high degree of bipartisanship. President Obama has said he would sign the legislation.
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A Perfect Homecoming: Lutheran Medical Center & Seniors' Resource Center
By: Stephanie Spriggs
Grant Writer and Report Specialist, CIVHC
Hospital discharge is a vulnerable time for all patients, but even more so for those without transportation or a support network.
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Health Care Systems Try to Cut Costs by Aiding the Poor and Troubled From New York Times, 3.2015
A number of experiments across the country are trying to better manage super-utilizers who are seeking out medical care for avoidable reasons such as poverty, homelessness, mental illness and trauma. What should the role of health care be in addressing these issues?
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Rethinking the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program
From the American Hospital Association, 3. 2015
There are many factors that impact a hospital's readmission rate, including socio-demographic issues that are outside the hospital's control. Current CMS risk adjustment doesn't account for these factors and may be setting unreasonable readmission reduction goals for hospitals in high-poverty areas.
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Maryland Hospitals Reduced Readmissions in First Year of New Waiver
By Tina Reed
From Baltimore Business Journal, 3.2015
More than 30 hospitals across Maryland reduced their patient readmission rates by 4 percent last year - avoiding 5,000 potential readmissions - in the first year of Maryland's new Medicare payment waiver that allows the state to set its own rates.
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Mobile Platform Acts as 'Coach' for COPD Patients
From LifeMap Solutions
LifeMap Solutions has teamed up with experts from the Mount Sinai-National Jewish Health Respiratory Institute to develop a navigator app for COPD patients with the goal of improving their self-management of COPD.
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