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

KHN

The federal government has penalized 764 hospitals — including more than three dozen it simultaneously rates as among the best in the country — for having the highest numbers of patient infections and potentially avoidable complications. The total amount of the penalties is determined by how much each hospital bills Medicare.

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

KHN

The federal government has penalized 764 hospitals — including more than three dozen it simultaneously rates as among the best in the country — for having the highest numbers of patient infections and potentially avoidable complications. The total amount of the penalties is determined by how much each hospital bills Medicare.

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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). Home health agencies existed then, and it was covered by Medicare. It basically changed home health from a fee-for-service per-diem model into a bundled or capitated model, similar to a hospital DRG episode. I was at CMS from 1995 to 2002.

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Who are 340B third-party administrators?

Healthcare ECONOMIST

The size of these discounts is approximately 50% off Medicare’s reimbursement for many drugs. The size of these discounts is approximately 50% off Medicare’s reimbursement for many drugs. There are over 73,000 contract pharmacies that qualify for 340B discounts.

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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.