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Doc Fix Could Depend on Post-Acute Care

In 1997, as part of the Balanced Budget Act, the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) was enacted in an attempt to manage Medicare’s spending on physician services. Every year since the SGRs inception, Congress has attempted to avoid implementing its proposed physician reimbursement cuts. This past March, another “patch” was plastered on the SGR –Read the Rest…


4.3 percent of Medicaid beneficiaries receive a third of all benefits

In 2012, Medicaid spent $435.5 billion on 72.6 million providing healthcare coverage to its beneficiaries. Since then, the Affordable Care Act has prompted many states to expand Medicaid services to even more people. A February 2014 report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) used data from the most recent fiscal year, 2009, available to determineRead the Rest…


Affordable Care Act Puts Post-Acute Care Facilities under Increasing Scrutiny

Improved healthcare for patients and substantial Medicare savings are the motivations behind the Affordable Care Act’s call for increasing scrutiny of post-acute care facilities; long-term care facility owners and operators need to take notice. Revised nursing home rating systems President Obama signed the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act (IMPACT) Oct. 6 changing the wayRead the Rest…


Better Care Lower Cost Act Provides Care for Chronically Ill Seniors

The fastest growing portion of Medicare enrollees is also the most expensive group to provide services to. The Better Care Lower Cost Act is intended to create substantial Medicare savings while improving care for these patients who typically have multiple chronic conditions. The numbers are astounding: Medicare beneficiaries with two or more chronic conditions accountRead the Rest…


9 Tips for Creating Better Communication at Your Health care Facility

Although the Internet has increased the number of communications we initiate and respond to in any given day, it has done little for the quality of communication – and the poor skills have begun to spill out into the workplace. Miscommunication can be the root cause of a myriad of problems and, when it comesRead the Rest…


Defining Long-Term Patient-Centered Care

Patient-centered care considers the individual patient’s needs, preferences and values when making healthcare decisions. This patient-focused approach may seem like common sense, but the truth is, that it is relatively new to the long-term care industry. The term patient-centered care, was first coined in 1991 following a survey that asked recently hospitalized patients what partRead the Rest…


Over 3,000 Dual Eligibles Patients in Illinois select The Post-Hospitalist Company

DETROIT, October 8, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — General Medicine, P.C., The Post-Hospitalist Company has once again achieved another milestone in the last quarter of 2014. Within one week of the launch of the state of Illinois’s newest Managed Care Health Plan, the Medicare-Medicaid Duals Plan, over 3,000 members/enrollees of this newest health plan have chosen General Medicine,Read the Rest…


High rates of nursing staff turnovers have surprising benefit for facilities

High rates of nursing staff turnovers have been an issue in the long-term care industry for decades. Studies show, that for Certified Nurse Assistants (CNAs), the most common type of caregiver in long-term care, turnover can exceed 100%. For other nursing home staff it isn’t much better. For RNs, Licensed Vocational Nurses turnover rates canRead the Rest…


Patient-Centered Care Approach Tops List of Changes Coming to Long-Term Facilities

A combination of increasingly high costs, alarming statistics, Affordable Healthcare Act requirements and an aging generation of Baby Boomers has forced the long-term care industry to evaluate and adjust the way it provides services to post-acute care patients. An increasing number of patients have their healthcare coverage through an ACO or MCO, which have theirRead the Rest…


What is General Medicine?

Many physicians who provide medical services to post-acute care facilities do so in addition to their work in their own practices and making hospital rounds. It’s because of this that it becomes understandable that their practices often take priority. It’s also understandable if returning calls to the facility might be put off until the endRead the Rest…