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- The Medicare Prescription Benefit: Implications for Long-Term Care Residents
- About two-thirds of nursing facility residents are Medicaid beneficiaries, due to low income or having spent down their assets. Their medications are currently paid for by the Medicaid programs of the various states. Another 8-10% of nursing facility residents are covered by Medicare Part A, which pays for medications along...
- White papers 2002-08-13
- Long Term Care Hospitals-Within-Hospitals
- This paper discusses about long term health care solutions. Medicare regulations define long-term care hospitals as having an average length of stay greater than 25 days. Medicare excludes these hospitals from the acute care hospital prospective payment system. Long-term care hospitals-within-hospitals HwHs are physically located inside acute care hospitals (host...
- White papers 2004-07-01
- Home Care Reimbursement, Long-Term Care Utilization, and Health Outcomes
- Long-term care currently comprises almost 10% of national health expenditures and it is projected to rise rapidly over coming decades. A key, and relatively poorly understood, element of long-term care is home health care. The paper uses a substantial change in Medicare reimbursement policy, which took the form of tightly...
- White papers 2004-04-01
- The Corporation on Trial: Hospitals in Long-Term Care Litigation
- In closing, the paper recommends that any hospital that is involved in long-term care litigation understand that model and apply the best practices discussed. The potential for large awards is far greater than in a hospital's typical medical malpractice case. Educating the claim staff is critical to the hospital's success...
- White papers
- Integrating Acute and Long-Term Care for High-Cost Populations
- This white paper study deals with the initiatives that share most of the following characteristics: prepaid, risk-adjusted financing; integrated Medicare and Medicaid funding streams; a flexible array of acute and long-term benefits; well organized, redesigned care delivery systems that tailor these benefits to individual need; a mission-driven philosophy; and considerable...
- White papers 2002-04-09
- The Interaction of Public and Private Insurance: Medicaid and the Long-Term Care Insurance Market
- The paper shows that the provision of even incomplete public insurance can substantially crowd out private insurance demand. It examines the interaction of the public Medicaid program with the private market for long-term care insurance and estimate that Medicaid can explain the lack of private insurance purchases for at least...
- White papers 2004-12-01
- Supporting Caring Caregivers: Policy and Practice Initiatives in Long Term Care
- An MIT Workplace Center working paper reports on 40 interviews in the healthcare sector in Massachusetts and identifies five key problems. Frank and Eaton focus in the long term care industry on the very problems identified in that working paper: poor quality jobs including short staffing, inflexible schedules and difficult...
- White papers 2005-05-25
- Guidelines for Preventing Health Care-Associated Pneumonia, 2003: Recommendations of CDC and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee
- This paper updates, expands, and replaces the previously published CDC "Guideline for Prevention of Nosocomial Pneumonia". The new guidelines are designed to reduce the incidence of pneumonia and other severe, acute lower respiratory tract infections in acute-care hospitals and in other health-care settings (e.g., ambulatory and long-term care institutions) and...
- White papers 2004-03-26
- The Effects of State Medicaid Policies on the Dynamic Savings Patterns of the Elderly
- This paper investigates the influences of health and the variation in state Medicaid policies on the savings patterns, insurance coverage, and long-term care decisions of elderly persons who anticipate the need for long-term care. States have considerable flexibility in determining policies that affect the attractiveness of receiving Medicaid coverage for...
- White papers 2006-04-01
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- EMORY HEALTHCARE new name for Emory's health care delivery system
- ATLANTA--BW HealthWire--April 4, 1997--EMORY HEALTHCARE, the long-awaited new name for Emory's health care delivery system, has been approved by Emory health sciences leadership and by the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Board. As of April 1, it replaces the Emory University System of Health Care name. ...
- Research articles 1997-04-04
- Tenet's High Hospital Prices and Their Perverse Consequences
- One of the reasons healthcare is such a hairball to understand -- much less reform -- is that so few of the actual workings of the system are remotely transparent. Much hospital pricing, for instance, is so deeply shrouded in layers of individually negotiated discounts, almost none of which are...
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- First Consulting Group Invests in, Establishes Alliance With Confer Software; Alliance Offers Healthcare Organizations Web-based Care Management Solutions
- Business Editors LONG BEACH, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Jan. 11, 2000 First Consulting Group Inc. (Nasdaq:FCGI), a leading provider of information-based consulting, integration, and management services for healthcare, pharmaceutical and other life sciences organizations, and Confer Software Inc., a leading provider of eCare -- Web-based solutions for healthcare -- have entered...
- Research articles 2000-01-11
- The Healthcare MBA: One Fast Track in a Slow Economy
- The bottom line: Healthcare is hiring and B-schools can't churn out enough MBAs to fill jobs in the $2.26 trillion industry. Top...
- Articles 2009-02-09
- Committee Urges Hospitals to Merge Heart Care in Long Beach, Calif..
- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 13 -- LONG BEACH, Calif. -- St. Mary and Long Beach Community medical centers should consolidate their heart care at Community, a steering committee of doctors will recommend to the two Long Beach hospitals' parent company. Thomas G. Hennessy,...
- Research articles 1999-10-14
- First Consulting Group Merges Units to Strengthen Technology and Health-Care Practices; New Organizations Will Improve Client Service and Strategic Focus
- Business Editors LONG BEACH, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--April 19, 2001 In a move to further strengthen both its technology and its health-care services, First Consulting Group today announced the formation of two new business units: Doghouse Technology Services and The Healthcare Group. Doghouse Technology Services merges FCG Doghouse with...
- Research articles 2001-04-19
- Commitment to IT Brings Rewards to NCH Healthcare System; Long-Time Dedication to Technology Nets Record Nursing Satisfaction Rates
- KANSAS CITY, Mo. & NAPLES, Fla. -- Before NCH Healthcare System NCH adopted healthcare information technology, clinicians and staff spent considerable portions of their days copying more than one million pieces of paper for patient records every month between the system's two hospitals. Together with Cerner Corp. (Nasdaq:CERN), the nation's...
- Research articles 2005-09-12
- Private Healthcare Systems appoints managed care executive Richard F. Belloff president and chief executive officer
- WALTHAM, Mass.--BUSINESS WIRE--May 6, 1996--Private Healthcare Systems Inc. PHCS, one of the nation's leading suppliers of managed care products, has appointed Richard F. Belloff president and chief executive officer.PHCS offers PPO, POS, Behavioral Health Networks, medical management and other programs to employers through a group of commercial insurance carriers and...
- Research articles 1996-05-06
- Brockville General Hospital Selects Misys Healthcare Systems to Deploy Computerized Clinical Information Network; Hospital Completes Industry-Wide Search to Build Leading Electronic Health Record System and Improve Patient Care
- RALEIGH, N.C. -- Misys Healthcare Systems, a market leader in healthcare IT, today announced that Brockville General Hospital BGH has signed a multi-million dollar contract for Misys CPR, an industry-leading computer-based patient record solution, that will allow hospital staff to achieve high levels of CPOE adoption and the benefits of...
- Research articles 2005-12-19
- Report Shows How Information Technology Is Bridging the Health Care Quality Gap; IT Solutions Featured Support Institute of Medicine's Crossing the Quality Chasm Report Goals
- Business Editors and Health/High-Tech Writers OAKLAND and LONG BEACH, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 27, 2002 How information technology is being used to improve the quality of clinical care in physician offices is the focus of a new report from the California HealthCare Foundation CHCF. Crossing the Chasm with Information...
- Research articles 2002-08-27
- Settlement at Fletcher Allen.(The Week in Healthcare)(Fletcher Allen Health Care is paying $1 million to Vermont and the federal government)
- Byline: Tony Fong Fletcher Allen Health Care last week agreed to pay $1 million to the federal government and Vermont, ending one piece of a major investigation into an expansion project whose price tag has more than doubled since it was first proposed. ...
- Research articles 2003-10-13
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