Articles Tagged With: Medicare
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Discharge Navigators Facilitate More Efficient Transitions
SNF beds were limited in one hospital’s region, even before the COVID-19 pandemic decimated nursing home staffing across the United States. ECU Health’s solution has been to assign a discharge navigator to work on obtaining authorizations for transferring patients to SNFs. Instead of waiting for the SNF to obtain authorization for a particular patient, the discharge navigator handles this task.
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Congress Proposes Adding Thousands of Medicare-Funded Residency Positions
The bill would add 2,000 positions annually for seven years, which could alleviate healthcare staffing woes.
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Avoid Patient Abandonment Claims with Education, Follow-up
Patient abandonment claims can arise when a physician or hospital can no longer care for a patient or when there is insufficient follow-up. The risk can be ameliorated with proper procedures and communication.
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Patients with Parkinson’s Disease Often Lost to Follow-Up Care
Telehealth visits can improve continuity of care, quality of life, and overall health for patients with Parkinson’s disease, recent research shows. Although Parkinson’s affects 1.2 million people in the United States, there is little research on people in later stages of the disease.
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CMS Threatens Citations for Workplace Safety Violations
CMS recently put hospitals on notice about potential penalties regarding workplace safety with a recent memorandum to state survey agency directors. The memorandum focuses on workplace violence.
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Better Care Communication Needed for Home Health
Researchers wanted to know if there is an association between home health and gaps in care coordination among providers. They found patients receiving home healthcare are sicker, experienced more functional dependencies, and reported more preventable drug-drug interactions. While home health was not associated with a difference in gaps of care coordination, it was associated with twice the risk of a preventable adverse outcome.
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Focusing on Home Health and Hospice Referral Practices
While healthcare is ever-changing, the practice of making referrals across the continuum of care evolves along with it. Over the last three years, as hospitals have been full and transitions of care have been made in haste, ensuring quality transitions to home health and hospice has become even more important. Thankfully, technology has helped ease the burden.
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Biden Signs Inflation Reduction Act
Administration, industry tout healthcare provisions included in the sweeping legislative package.
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HRSA Compliance Exposes Hospitals to Liability and Fines
The Health Resources and Services Administration program that reimbursed providers for COVID-19-related treatment for uninsured patients was instrumental in helping hospitals survive the pandemic without excessive financial losses. But the federal government is looking at how that money was obtained and whether it was spent properly.
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FQHC Program Created Innovative Partnership with Other Organizations
Just as it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a village to care for an elder. With this philosophy in mind, a community health center in California has partnered with various local organizations to better serve its growing elderly patient population.