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Sample RAC demand letter that MACs will begin sending in 2012
Building a Firm Foundation: How PACE Enabled Palmetto Health to Develop Their ACO
This report provides a detailed discussion of baseline health spending by state of residence (per capita personal health care spending, per enrollee Medicare spending, and per enrollee Medicaid spending) in 2009, over the last decade (1998-2009), as well as the differential regional and state…
The closed-door discussion focused on the best practices of organizations that have won or were finalists of the American Hospital Association-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize. The discussion also explored how best practices can be disseminated at a faster pace to dramatically improve health care…
In many contexts, cesarean delivery has come to be regarded as the safer option, when in fact it has greater risks and c omplications than vaignal birth. Higher cesarean delivery rates have brought higher economic costs and greater health complications for motehr and baby, with little demonstrable…
About 1 in 12 adults (8.2 percent) aged 21 and older discharged from a hospital to the community was readmitted within 30 days and 1 in 3 adults (32.9 percent) was rehospitalized within one year of discharge. The implication is that many patients discharged from hospitals continue to be at-risk for…
In the fall of 2008, perioperative leaders at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass., conducted a two-week trial of the World Health Organization Surgical Safety Checklist in the main OR. The checklist was incorporated by using a Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle. In 2009, we began a 14-week…