Safety-net hospitals, which include urban hospitals serving large numbers of low-income, uninsured, and otherwise vulnerable populations, have historically faced greater financial strains than ...
As a cardiac electrophysiologist, I’m pretty far removed from public policy. But I have to admit that I was interested in the latest move by CMS to cut their Medicare payment rates to hospitals by ...
For serious complications and readmissions, similar patterns were seen. "These findings highlight the limitations of the CMS star rating system as a measure of surgical quality and should be a call ...
This retrospective claims-based cohort analysis was designed to determine the association between social risk and 30-day hospital readmissions. To measure the independent variable—social risk—the ...
While many of the causes for readmission are out of a hospital's control, the message is clear, hospitals will be obligated to get involved in the whole spectrum of care for a patient and will be held ...
BANGOR — Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center is pleased to have been recognized as having the lowest heart attack ...
CMS will replay a conference call on the new hospital-wide readmissions measure, according to an AHA News Now report. Hospitals have until Oct. 3 to review “dry run” reports on three quality measures: ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced in July they will be changing the way they evaluate skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), now focusing on four measures instead of one. Since ...
Thousands of hospitals across the U.S. yesterday received welcome news thanks to the government considering the battle against COVID-19 when determining fines for poor readmission rates. Those fines, ...
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