By Liz Seegert It would be difficult to assemble a more diverse group of experts. With backgrounds spanning hospitals, sales and marketing, managed care, technology, and program management, panelists at April’s “Health Care in Transition” seminar pooled their real-world experiences and cautioned attendees that home care’s future will not be “business as usual” […]
Some see them as partners, some as payers, some as reluctant, recalcitrant payers. A recent survey of Managed Care Organizations, however, reveals that many of them also believe in multi-pronged approaches as patients leave the hospital, including nursing, social services and home-health visits, often offering some of these services on their own.Many of the MAOs […]
Questioning Accepted Wisdom: When Is Evidence-Based Practice Not the Best Practice? Modern systems for managing patients rely on evidence based practice, a well proven system for the treatment of diseases in in-patient settings. Statistically speaking, evidence based practice will always emerge as the best approach, since interventions are selected based on the degree to […]
ATLANTA, June 14, 2013 — Today’s hospitals consider physician relationships critical to their success in an accountable care environment – whether through direct employment or affiliation with independent community physicians. This is according to a survey of 139 hospital and health system executives by the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA). The survey, sponsored by […]
In back-to-back news releases last week, Delta Health Technologies LLC introduced its new VP of sales, announced that it will underwrite the “2013 National State of the Industry Study,” and proposed a new name for the industry it has served for nearly 45 years, the care-at-home industry. Details about these developments are provided in […]
Monday of this week was October 1, 2012, the first day of Federal Fiscal Year 2013. The first day of a new Supreme Court session and the first day of Medicare hospital readmission penalties. The mass media has finally heard that Medicare will reduce payments to hospitals with high readmission rates by a predetermined percentage […]
