A research brief out of think tank Urban Institute evaluates the prospect of reducing Medicare spending by reining in excessive post-acute care rates. Right now, there are different payment structures ...
On any given day, social workers and case managers at Adventist Health Tillamook call 15 to 20 post-acute care facilities trying to place patients ready to be discharged. Some facilities say they ...
Financial supporters for this research include Lipitz Center at Johns Hopkins University, United States, NIH National Institute on Aging. For more information on this research see: Algorithmic ...
Post-acute care is the process of enabling functional recovery, following an acute or inpatient admission. Many settings can be used to support post-acute care, including skilled nursing and ...
Hospitals are referring a larger share of stroke patients to inpatient rehabilitation facilities, which typically favor home health as the provider of any additional step-down care, a recent study ...
New data shows that Medicare Advantage beneficiaries generally use fewer post-acute care services than enrollees in fee-for-service Medicare, and also experience worse outcomes. For that reason and ...
In September, CMS selected 741 hospitals to participate in a new reimbursement framework, the Transforming Episode Accountability Model. Under TEAM, participating hospitals are responsible for the ...
Below are seven hospitals, health systems or hospital operators that have recently posted job listings seeking post-acute care talent. 1. Trinity Health (Ann Arbor, Mich.) is seeking a post-acute ...
One of the Northeast’s largest rehab providers has doubled its commitment to placing a physician within a SNF to enhance outcomes.
Post-acute care has emerged as a focus due to the aging baby boomer generation, but technology and interoperability for these facilities lags behind that of hospitals. Over the past five-to-seven ...
Increasing costs and supply chain issues influenced by the pandemic are persisting issues. KLAS Research, a healthcare IT data and insights company, recently released its 2022 facility-based ...
UCLA research finds wide variations in whether hospitals refer patients to inpatient facilities or home health care following surgery To ensure that they receive proper care after surgery, patients ...