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Characteristics of Home Health Care Episodes
by Kevin Roche on Thursday, August 2, 2012
The Alliance for Home Health Quality and Innovation sponsored a useful report on characteristics of home health care and other post-acute care services by Medicare beneficiaries, with a focus on those surrounding hospital readmissions, a significant current issue for hospitals.
Tags: Health Care Costs, HomeCare, Hospital Readmissions, Medicare
Nursing Home Versus Home Care
by Kevin Roche on Thursday, March 8, 2012
One of the causes of rapid health spending growth is the aging of our population. A new report from the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality reviews the literature on home and community-based care for the elderly versus institutional care in nursing homes.
Tags: Care Management, Elder Care, HomeCare
2012 Potpourri VIII
by Kevin Roche on Friday, March 2, 2012
Its March and spring nears; our Potpourri blooms with nuggets of health care information, including comparative regulation of medical devices in the US and Europe, do physicians always truthful with patients, CMS’ oversight of home health care agencies, the validity of a CMS’ measure of ER scanning, and patient-centered care.
Tags: Consumers, Devices, FDA, Health Care Quality, HomeCare, Medicare, Pay For Performance, Physicians
2012 Potpourri I
by Kevin Roche on Friday, January 6, 2012
Welcome to 2012, when you can once again expect a series of high-quality Potpourris from our immense data bank! Our initial foray includes the Independence at Home CMS demo, discharge summaries and hospital readmissions, CMS’ quality measures for Medicaid patients, private equity fundraising, medical homes and cost savings for Medicaid patients and the effect of poor discharge summaries on nursing home patients.
Tags: Care Management, Financings, Health Care Quality, HomeCare, Hospital, Medicaid, medical home, Medicare, Readmissions
2011 Potpourri XXXXIX
by Kevin Roche on Friday, December 23, 2011
Our penultimate Potpourri delivers the quality you are accustomed to (for good or bad), including presents of health information on the Medicare physician payment method, telemonitoring results in the UK, the effect of eprescribing on fill rates, issues relating to use of health information technology in the home, the effect of social network on health behavior and whether imaging results actually influence decision-making or outcomes. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
Tags: Consumers, Drugs, HIT, HomeCare, Medicare, Physicians, Telemedicine, Wellness and Prevention
Hospital in the Home Analysis
by Kevin Roche on Thursday, December 8, 2011
An intriguing concept is explored in a paper from Deloitte: would it be possible to move some services typically delivered in a hospital to the patient’s home. Based on pilot’s in Australia, the paper suggests that savings can be achieved, with no apparent threat to quality or patient safety.
Tags: Health Care Costs, HomeCare, Hospital
Hospital Transition Care
by Kevin Roche on Thursday, November 10, 2011
It stands to reason that a care transition program will improve outcomes in regard to hospitalized stroke and heart attack patients, but an AHRQ research review finds little solid evidence that this is the case for most types of care transition interventions.
Tags: Care Management, Disease Management, HomeCare, Hospital
McKinsey on Home Health Care
by Kevin Roche on Thursday, September 15, 2011
A McKinsey Quarterly article explores why the market for better home health care technologies seems to be developing so slowly, particularly in light of rapidly growing demand and suggests changes to accelerate these new technologies.
Tags: HomeCare
Savings from Home Health Use
by Kevin Roche on Wednesday, July 6, 2011
A study finds that using home health care after a hospital admission for Medicare beneficiaries with certain chronic illnesses reduces Medicare Part A spending and readmissions compared to a beneficiary group that used other post-discharge services.
Tags: Elder Care, Health Care Costs, HomeCare, Hospital, Medicare
Better Care for the Elderly
by Kevin Roche on Wednesday, May 18, 2011
A Health Affairs article discusses health care for elderly persons living in retirement communities and how various models might help improve care coordination and reduce spending.
Tags: Elder Care, Health Care Costs, HomeCare, Medicare
2011 Potpourri X
by Kevin Roche on Friday, March 4, 2011
Hopefully winter nears its end; it has been brutal where we are. This week’s Potpourri may offer a little diversion, covering defensive medicine, a pediatric tele-consultation service, home stroke rehabilitation, consumers’ ability to afford care, patient satisfaction and hospital readmission rates and a mobile phone app to improve medication adherence.
Tags: Care Management, Drugs, Health Care Costs, HomeCare, Hospital, Telehealth
Home Care and TeleCommunications
by Kevin Roche on Monday, January 31, 2011
An outstanding Rand report describes the potential for home care technologies, barriers to their use and changes needed to overcome those barriers. The report paints a compelling picture of how greater care at home can benefit patients and the health system.
Tags: Chronic Disease, Elder Care, Health Care Costs, HomeCare, Telemedicine
MedPAC’s Medicare Advantage Comments.
by Kevin Roche on Monday, January 17, 2011
MedPAC weighs in unasked on some proposed changes to the Medicare Advantage program; objecting to CMS’ intent to limit benefit design flexibility on home health care and to CMS’s proposed quality incentive “demonstration.”
Tags: Health Care Costs, HomeCare, Medicare
Home Is Where the Care Is
by Kevin Roche on Thursday, October 28, 2010
The complexity and rate of change in health care sometimes makes spotting major trends difficult. One appears to be growth of home-based diagnostic and therapeutic care. An article in the New England Journal of Medicine discusses drivers for this trend.
Tags: Care Management, Consumers, Health Care Costs, Health Care Quality, HomeCare, Telemedicine
Home Testing of Blood Thinning Medication
by Kevin Roche on Friday, October 22, 2010
Research reported in the NEJM looked at differences in quality of care for patients who either tested themselves at home or were tested in a clinic to guide the administration of warfarin, a blood thinning drug. The results indicate home testing is as good as clinic testing.
Tags: Care Management, Consumers, HomeCare
2010 Potpourri XXIX
by Kevin Roche on Saturday, August 14, 2010
Another Saturday, another Potpourri, featuring the acquisition of a hospital medical necessity company, Americans’ online health usage, analysis of prescriptions, California workers’ compensation, home monitoring of elderly parents, remote psychiatric evaluations and telemedicine to treat depression.
Tags: Care Management, Drugs, Elder Care, HIT, HomeCare, Medicare, Monitoring, Telemedicine, Workers Compensation
Medicare Proposed Home Health Payment Changes
by Kevin Roche on Thursday, August 5, 2010
Every year Medicare puts out very lengthy and detailed proposed, and ultimately final, rules updating the reimbursement for all of the classes of providers–physicians, hospitals, etc. While reading these is a tough slog, it gives a good sense of issues which affect all payers, and of Medicare’s mindset.
Tags: Government, HomeCare, Medicare
2010 Potpourri XXIII
by Kevin Roche on Saturday, June 26, 2010
Once more into the breach with the Saturday health care roundup, including medication adherence, monitoring patients’ health status in their homes, Massachusetts’ reform update and insurance costs, hospitals’ economic contribution, hospital cost shifting and consumers’ views on use of health IT.
Tags: Drugs, Health Care Costs, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, HIT, HomeCare, Hospital, Monitoring, Telemedicine
Yahoo Finance
by Vita Advisors on Friday, May 28, 2010
Gentiva’s Odyssey buy sector game changer
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