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Social Factors in Hospital Readmissions

December 11, 2012 | | Posted in Newsletter

This piece raises the question of social factors, like employment, home location, etc, being relevant to hospital readmissions which [MORE]

CMS “Decision Support System” on Imaging

October 19, 2010 | | Posted in Newsletter

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid hope to enlist up to 3,000 private practice physicians to study how they [MORE]

Hospital Readmissions Squeeze

May 12, 2009 | | Posted in Newsletter

Last month, CMS began its Care Transition Projects which aims to develop a number of interventions to cut down on [MORE]

Pain Management Guidelines

May 5, 2009 | | Posted in Newsletter

CMS released, on April 10, new standards for pain management in elderly patients that nursing homes and assisted living facilities [MORE]

Shocking Images

April 7, 2009 | | Posted in Newsletter

If you were shocked by Duke geneticist Allan Roses estimate about the ineffectiveness of prescription medicines, you’ll be similarly disturbed [MORE]

“Observational care”

March 31, 2009 | | Posted in Newsletter

Last year, 320,000 patients in Illinois were received at hospitals for observation-a figure ten times greater than that of 1998.  [MORE]

Wrong Medical Procedures – Oops!

January 20, 2009 | | Posted in Newsletter

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid announced on Jan. 15 that it will not reimburse hospitals and surgeons for three [MORE]