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Health Care Paradox: Medicare Penalizes Dozens of Hospitals It Also Gives Five Stars

KHN

Academic medical centers say the reason nearly half of them are penalized each year is that they are more diligent in finding and reporting infections.

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Health Care Paradox: Medicare Penalizes Dozens of Hospitals It Also Gives Five Stars

KHN

Academic medical centers say the reason nearly half of them are penalized each year is that they are more diligent in finding and reporting infections.

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Orlando Health to launch Hospital Care at Home program

Healthcare It News

Orlando Health's program is the first in Central Florida to be approved by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and represents an expansion of a federal enhanced care model created during the pandemic to extend the scop of hospital resources. It's going to be the emergency department for heart attacks or strokes.

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WellBe Senior Medical CEO On Demonstrating Value To Payers In The Home

Home Health Care

Kang is the former CMO of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The big difference, probably, in the last maybe 10 to 15 years is that Medicaid, state agencies, have actually started paying for it, as part of an effort to keep people out of nursing homes and in the home. It’s completely flipped.

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Who are 340B third-party administrators?

Healthcare ECONOMIST

While participation in 340B can be lucrative for hospitals, it also can be administratively burdensome due to extensive record keeping required, the need to insure that Medicaid discounts and 340B discounts do not result in double-discounts, and the potential for differential discounts for in-house compared to contracted pharmacies.

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California Passes First State Law Requiring Physicians to Disclose Open Payments Database to Patients

Sheppard Health Law

The written or electronic notice shall contain the following text: “The Open Payments database is a federal tool used to search payments made by drug and device companies to physicians and teaching hospitals. It can be found here.

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CMS: Hospital-To-Home Discharge Process Still Plagued By Poor Communication, Incomplete Patient Information

Home Health Care

Patient transitions from the hospital to post-acute care providers, including home health agencies, continue to be plagued by incomplete medical records and missing information. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is calling out hospitals for putting patients and their families in harm’s way.