Hospital Home Health Archives – May 1, 2007
May 1, 2007
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Why doesn't your agency volunteer for the P4P demonstration project?
You've read the headlines. You've seen the advertisements for the conferences. You're bombarded daily with articles and seminars that promise to tell you how to prepare for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Pay-for-Performance (P4P) program. -
Address legal and ethical issues related to P4P
The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services' Pay For Performance Demonstration Project will test and identify data collection and measurement, and financial incentive approaches for a home health pay for performance system but it may emphasize some legal and ethical issues as well. -
Cover pediatric underfunding with new services
Not only do home health agencies with pediatric services face the daunting task of finding staff members qualified for pediatric patients, but agency managers also deal with reimbursement problems that don't exist for adult populations. -
First hospice PACE program opens doors
The hospice mission shares many of the goals and features of the mission of the Programs of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), and so for hospices with enough resources, initiating a PACE program is a natural fit. -
Kansas hospice describes how PACE program works
The first hospice to implement services under Medicare/Medicaid's Programs of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) has made the philosophical skip to expanding its care to the frail and elderly who are not hospice-eligible. -
MRSA rampant among patients on dialysis
The rate of invasive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection in dialysis patients is higher than for any other known patient population and is 100 times higher than for the general population, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports. -
Patients discharged on Fridays likely admitted
Based on his research, Mr. Jeff Lewis was able to present conclusive data that patients discharged from hospitals to home care on Fridays are significantly more likely to be rehospitalized within a week than patients discharged on other days of the week. -
News Briefs
The total number of states with breach of information laws that require notification of consumers when a security breach involving consumers' personal information increased to 35 with the addition of 11 more states in 2006.