Quality and Safety
CMS will analyze enrollment and medical claims to keep bad actors out of Medicare, share information with Medicaid and thwart fraudulent payment.
Walmart - the nation's largest retailer and biggest private employer - now wants to dominate a growing part of the healthcare market, offering a range of medical services from basic prevention to management of chronic conditions like diabetes and heart disease.
Chronically and seriously ill adults who received care from a medical home were less likely to report medical errors, test duplication and other care coordination failures, according to a new international survey from the Commonwealth Fund.
The CMS/Premier healthcare alliance Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration (HQID) project served as a test-bed for various provisions in the healthcare reform law.
Bundling payments to providers as a means to cut healthcare costs is proving harder to do than originally anticipated, according to a new study from non-profit research organization Rand Corp.
A one-year-old accountable care organization established by Allina Hospitals & Clinic and payer HealthPartners has reported that it reduced medical cost by $6 million in 2010 and reduced the medical cost trend to 3 percent compared with 8 percent in 2009.
As the federal government pours billions of dollars into the healthcare system to encourage the adoption rate of health information technologies, the Institute of Medicine is about to release a report this week raising concerns about the risks associated with electronic health records.
Healthcare costs are in a constant state of expansion yet physicians do not understand how much the care they recommend costs and they are not getting the training they should have so that they will understand those costs and what they can do to responsibly contain them, said Steve Weinberger, MD, executive vice president and CEO of the American College of Physicians, in an opinion piece published in September in the ACP’s Annals of Internal Medicine.
The ad starts off pretty tamely, with an older woman sitting on the edge of examination table in a doctor’s office. Her doctor asks her if she has any questions. She says no.
The Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) enables frail Medicare beneficiaries still in their homes to access medical and social services in the community.