POSTS TAGGED AS Medicare

Strategies to Reduce the Healthcare Cost Curve

Howard Deichen, MBA, Executive Vice President,  MedAssets explores  the future of healthcare  and strategies  that will successfully bend the healthcare [MORE]

Technology Solutions for Long-Term Care by Daniel Wrappe

Daniel D. Wrappe, CEO of Wireless MedCare, LLC,  describes the common problems of long-term care – managing issues related to [MORE]

Medicare Readmissions

Just like passing the baton in a team relay race, hospital discharges to the patient’s home can be tricky [MORE]

Using Technology to Connect Acute Care and Community Services to Reduce Costs and Improve Outcomes for Older Americans

This presentation by the Executive Vice President of MedAssets focuses on the costs of care for chronic illness in older [MORE]

Mayo-Scottsdale to Stop Taking Medicare Patients

Every hospital in the country is trying to figure out how to break even financially on its Medicare patients.  The [MORE]

What do the experts think about saving Medicare?

Every hospital in the United States is now trying to figure out a strategy for breaking even on Medicare patients [MORE]

Eldercare Costs Rising

Apropos to this year’s Medical Automation International Conference, a recent report presents cost figures for eldercare between 1996 and 2006.  [MORE]

Telemedicine Trial for Diabetes Showed No Cost Benefit

In 2000, Medicare commissioned a study of telemedicine services for type 2 diabetics, and the results that were reported this [MORE]

Hospital Readmission Rates

Length of stay is a metric hospitals and payers watch closely.  Typically, hospitals are reimbursed by the case, while physicians [MORE]

Growth of Wireless Telehealth

Even without insurance reimbursement, analysts estimate that by 2012 some 15 million mobile and wireless healthcare devices will be in [MORE]

Legislation for “Care Coaches”

Senator Michael Bennett (D-Colorado) has introduced a bill titled “The Medicare Care Transition Act of 2009” that calls for a [MORE]

“Observational care”

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

Care Coordination

It’s common sense that improvements in care, patient adherence and better communication would lower healthcare costs, mainly by reducing hospital [MORE]

Wrong Medical Procedures – Oops!

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