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Four Apps That May Improve Patient Care
As health care professionals begin to take notice of ways new communication technologies can be implemented to make it easier to be more effective in their jobs, technology is becoming an increasingly integral part of plans to improve patient care. Mobile technology has specifically become a game changer in the regular practices for doctors andRead the Rest…
Limited Ability to Improve Patient Care With Apps
Although mobile apps are the future of patient-centered healthcare and there are currently over 40,000 healthcare apps available for download in the U.S. iTunes app store, mobile apps have yet to move from novelty status into mainstream use. The reason for this may be that healthcare apps are not yet seen as valid ways toRead the Rest…
Challenges for an SNFist Practitioner
SNFist practitioners—medical professionals whose careers are devoted to working with patients and residents in long-term care facilities—are faced with a set of challenges that is unique from those of other healthcare professionals. It is this particular set of challenges that births the acronym SNF, which stands for skilled nursing facilities. The main reason for thisRead the Rest…
Examples of Hospital Readmissions Penalties Paid
After repeated miscalculations, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has discovered errors in the figures it initially reported as part of their effort to reduce hospital readmissions, otherwise known as the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program. Reimbursement penalties previously unaccounted for are estimated to total approximately $280 million that must be reimbursed to the governmentRead the Rest…
An Understandable View of the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program
Even for the most experienced hospital teams, Medicare programs are difficult to unravel. There’s no question that the recent changes to Medicare are some of the most difficult, especially the initiative to reduce hospital readmissions. However, no matter if you’re a caretaker or a patient, if you work with Medicare your future depends on makingRead the Rest…
Why Hospital Readmissions Sometimes Occur
Results from a new national study reveal an excessive number of hospital readmissions for Medicare patients. A team of researchers from The Dartmouth Institute have been working together on a five-year study about post hospital care and they see the causes for readmissions completely avoidable with proper post hospital care. This study, called the DartmouthRead the Rest…
General Medicine achieves top 10 percent status
Detroit, MI, January 10, 2014 – General Medicine, P.C. – “The Post Hospitalist Company” achieves performance in the top 10 percent for audited Health Care Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) Rate results for 2013 The overall average HEDIS Rate for all of the Managed Care Plans (Medicare, Medicaid, HMO, POS and PPO Plans) servicedRead the Rest…
Study Finds Nursing Home Quality Measures Needed
New research examining the relationship between nursing home quality measures has reported alarming statistics on hospitalization rates of Medicare patients in nursing homes, averaging 25% and reaching as high as 38% in some facilities. Conducted by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG), the study is concluded with a requestRead the Rest…
General Medicine, P.C. Signs its 1,000th Post-Acute Facility Service Agreement
DETROIT, November 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — The Post Hospitalist Company / General Medicine, P.C. – continues with steady, successful growth into the fourth quarter of 2013. As the nation’s leading provider of specialized Post Hospitalist Medical Care Services to Managed Care Organizations, Medicare-Medicaid Dual Eligible Programs, Medicare Advantage Plans, Accountable Care Organization’s High-Value Provider Networks,Read the Rest…
Decline in Hospital Readmission Rate and ER Hospital Admissions
In a difficult healthcare environment, where the national average for patients being readmitted to the hospital is excessive, General Medicine, PC, The Post-Hospitalist Company, has worked with the State of Illinois’ Integrated Care Plan to reduce its hospital readmission rate for post-acute Medicaid patients by 18 percent in the first year. In addition, the planRead the Rest…