Community-Based Palliative Care Results in Positive Fiscal Impact for Providers and Payers
Community-based palliative care is a community-focused care management strategy that ideally reaches patients in the home, before their conditions seriously deteriorate. The result is care that creates better alignment with personal wishes and reduces economic burdens for all.
A National Conversation About Patient Safety and Medical Errors
Findings of a survey about the public’s experience and understanding of medical errors suggest a public health approach is needed to address patient safety.
Why Hospitals Should Partner With Home Health Agencies
By bringing post-acute care into patient homes, home health services are reducing readmissions by 31 percent and overall healthcare costs by 24 percent.
Executive Summary: CMS Quality Payment Program 2018 Final Rule
This document briefly summarizes key financial and operational impacts from the 2018 Quality Payment Program (QPP) final rule, published by CMS.
What Revenue Cycle Departments can Learn from the Hospitality Industry
An emphasis on customer service can help revenue cycle staff increase cash flow, mitigate denial risk, and improve customer satisfaction.
Rethinking Health Care’s Triple Aim
Achieving health care’s Triple Aim has proved elusive, but it may be yet be achievable through a process of engaging rising-risk patients in their own care through daily self-reporting.
A Holistic Approach to Reducing Hospital Readmission Rates
Main Line Health’s Barry D. Mann and Chinwe Onyekere describe the promising results the organization has seen from a volunteer program in which medical students serve as advocates for underserved patients.
Modeling the Financial Benefits of a Physician Adviser Program
Elizabeth Lamkin and Larry Field, DO, describe how healthcare organizations can assess the efficacy of a physician adviser as part of strategic-planning efforts.
Modeling the Financial Benefits of a Physician Adviser Program
Elizabeth Lamkin and Larry Field, DO, describe how healthcare organizations can assess the efficacy of a physician adviser as part of strategic-planning efforts.
Highmark Sees the ‘Value’ in VBID for MA Plans
Ellen Galardy of Highmark, Inc. describes the health plan's participation in a value-based insurance design pilot that seeks to improve the care of chronic conditions.