Filtered By:
Management: Medicare

This page shows you your search results in order of relevance. This is page number 18.

Order by Relevance | Date

Total 32351 results found since Jan 2013.

Factors Associated With Hospices' Provision of Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
In conclusion, CAM offering by hospices is related to hospices' profit orientation status and number of patients served but is not related to other measured characteristics of hospices. PMID: 23689364 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: The American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care - May 20, 2013 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Olotu BS, Brown CM, Barner JC, Lawson KA Tags: Am J Hosp Palliat Care Source Type: research

AMA Asks Medicare to Pay for More Care-Coordination CodesAMA Asks Medicare to Pay for More Care-Coordination Codes
The AMA said it would be a 'monumental step' for Medicare to begin paying for care team conferences, telephone visits with patients, and other E/M services that now go unreimbursed. Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Business of Medicine Headlines - September 9, 2015 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care News Source Type: news

A Real (Living, Breathing) Health Care Reform Plan: Drop MACRA
By STEVEN SOUMERAI Dear Washington, Congratulations! You have listened to the AMA and practicing physicians and made it a little easier to comply (at first) with the Medicare Quality Payment Program, part of the massive MACRA “pay for value” law.  But CMS’ announcements in The Federal Register and “fact sheet” are incomprehensible gobbledygook that will be understood by neither doctors, patients, nor the rest of society. The language personifies the complexity, unwieldiness and confused thinking in this huge national policy.  MACRA is a $15 billion boondoggle that the best research shows will ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 27, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized ACO CMS Health Care Reform MACRA Veerma Source Type: blogs

Emergency!: Preparedness, Planning, Generators: The New Rules Affecting Health Care
National Fire Protection Association. 06/04/2017 This one-hour, 26-minute video explores the genesis of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) rule dealing with emergency preparedness and planning, and the implementation challenges and resources to assist provider organizations in carrying out requirements. While acute care hospitals and long-term care facilities have always provided some level of preparedness and planning, the new rule clarifies expectations and performance levels. (Video or Multimedia)
Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - September 15, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: The U.S. National Library of Medicine Source Type: news

CMS Quietly Launches an Offensive Against Direct Primary Care
By NIRAN AL-AGBA, MD Our healthcare system is self-destructing, a fact made more obvious every single day.  A few years ago, a number of brave physicians who were fed up with administrative burden, burnout, and obstacles to providing care for patients started a movement –known as Direct Primary Care (DPC.)  This is an innovative practice model where the payment arrangement is directly between a patient and their physician, leaving third parties, such as insurance or government agencies, completely out of the equation.  The rapidly growing number of DPC physicians have organized into a group called the DPC Coalition (D...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 19, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized CMS direct primary care Medicare value-based care Source Type: blogs

Combating the Opioid Crisis: Improving the Ability of Medicare and Medicaid to Provide Care for Patients
U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Energy and Commerce. 04/11/2018 This two-day Congressional hearing, held on April 11 and 12, 2018, is aimed at advancing targeted, timely, and bipartisan legislative solutions to help combat the opioid crisis. It discusses 34 bills that seek to improve the roles Medicaid and Medicare can play in helping combat the crisis. The bills include provisions to remove barriers to treatment, improve data to identify and help at-risk patients, and provide incentives for greater care coordination and enhanced care. (Video or Multimedia)
Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - April 17, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: The U.S. National Library of Medicine Source Type: news

How has the Affordable Care Act changed outcomes in emergency general surgery?
This study seeks to determine how ACA OE coverage changes outcomes in EGS. METHODS This is a retrospective review using the Nationwide Inpatient Sample database from 2012 to 2014. Patients aged 18 to 64 years undergoing EGS procedures were identified by International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, codes. Medicare patients were excluded. Patient demographics, hospital characteristics, and Charlson comorbidity index were obtained. Outcomes were measured by mortality, complications, and calculated costs. Univariate and difference-in-differences multivariate analyses were performed to determine the effect of th...
Source: The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care - May 1, 2018 Category: Orthopaedics Tags: AAST 2017 Podium Paper Source Type: research

Let ' s Stop Claiming That Palliative Care Improves Survival
by Drew RosielleHospice and palliative care community, I ' m calling for a moratorium on all blanket, unqualified claims that hospice and palliative care improve survival.Let ' s just stop doing this.There has never been any actual evidence that palliative care (PC) interventions improve survival in patients, but since thelandmark Temel NEJM 2010 RCT of early outpatient palliative care for lung cancer patients showed a clinically and statistically significant improvement in longevity in the PC arm, I have heard and all read all sorts of statements by palliative people and all sorts of others (hospital executives, poli...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - June 30, 2018 Category: Palliative Care Tags: lung cancer palliative palliative care quality of life rosielle temel The profession Source Type: blogs

Surgical Versus Medical Team Assignment and Secondary Palliative Care Services for Patients Dying in a Cardiac Hospital.
CONCLUSIONS:: Primary inpatient care by a surgical team had a strong inverse relationship with SPC. This suggests a possible cultural barrier within surgical disciplines to SPC. PMID: 30791705 [PubMed - in process]
Source: The American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care - February 24, 2019 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Gandesbery B, Dobbie K, Joyce E, Hoeksema L, Perez Protto S, Gorodeski EZ Tags: Am J Hosp Palliat Care Source Type: research

Will Amazon Deliver a Single-Payer Health Care System for the U.S.?
By JOE GRACE Amazon has quietly put together a syndicate including Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan to provide better and more affordable health care for their combined 1.2 million workers.  The joint effort, called Haven, makes sense because many companies of size today are self-insured to provide health care at lower costs. But this is different. Jeff Bezos, Jamie Dimon and Warren Buffett seem to be personally involved in the development of Haven. So, what could they possibility have up their sleeves? At the same time, many Democrats running for president are promising single payer health care (Medicare For...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 19, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Amazon Health Policy The Business of Health Care Haven Joe Grace Medicare For All Single payer Source Type: blogs

Slow Walking to Value Based Care: Why Fee for Service Still Rules
By KEN TERRY (This is the second in a series of excerpts from Terry’s new book, Physician-Led Healthcare Reform: a New Approach to Medicare for All, published by the American Association for Physician Leadership.) In January 2015, then Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell announced lofty goals for the government’s value-based payment program. By the end of 2016, she said, 85% of all payments in the traditional Medicare program would be tied to quality or value, and 90% would be value-based by the end of 2018. The government planned to tie 30% of Medicare payments to alternative payment models by ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 26, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy fee for service Ken Terry value based care Source Type: blogs

Value-based care – no progress since 1997?
By MATTHEW HOLT Humana is out with a report saying that its Medicare Advantage members who are covered by value-based care (VBC) arrangements do better and cost less than either their Medicare Advantage members who aren’t or people in regular Medicare FFS. To us wonks this is motherhood, apple pie, etc, particularly as proportionately Humana is the insurer that relies the most on Medicare Advantage for its business and has one of the larger publicity machines behind its innovation group. Not to mention Humana has decent slugs of ownership of at-home doctors group Heal and the now publiciy-traded capitated medical ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 12, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Value-Based Care Humana Matthew Holt Source Type: blogs

Lessons Learned During COVID-19 That Can Move Telehealth in Primary Care Forward
Introduction: Our university hospital-based primary care practices transitioned a budding interest in telehealth to a largely telehealth-based approach in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. Initial work: Implementation of telehealth began in 2017. Health system barriers, provider and patient reluctance, and inadequate reimbursement prevented widespread adoption at the time. COVID-19 served as the catalyst to accelerate telehealth efforts. Implementation: COVID-19 resulted in the need for patient care with "social distancing." In addition, due to the pandemic, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and other insur...
Source: Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine - February 23, 2021 Category: Primary Care Authors: Knierim, K., Palmer, C., Kramer, E. S., Rodriguez, R. S., VanWyk, J., Shmerling, A., Smith, P., Holmstrom, H., Bacak, B. S., Brown Levey, S. M., Staton, E. W., Holtrop, J. S. Tags: FAMILY MEDICINE AND THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM Source Type: research

Medicare, Not AMA, Should Set Values for Primary Care Pay Medicare, Not AMA, Should Set Values for Primary Care Pay
An influential federal commission ' s wide-ranging report on primary care suggests that CMS develop its own method for assessing the value of clinicians ' services and thus lessen its dependence on the AMA.Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Internal Medicine Headlines - May 5, 2021 Category: Internal Medicine Tags: Internal Medicine News Source Type: news