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1. Medicare Help – What are the Hospital Process of Care Measures A process of care measure shows how often hospitals give recommended treatments known to get the best results for patients with certain medical conditions or surgical procedures. Information about these treatments are taken from the patients’ records and converted into a percentage. This is one way to compare the quality of care that hospitals give. ...
2. The Human Services Committee is giving strong consideration to two measures that would go a long way toward lowering health care costs and improving health care quality. CONNECTICUT: The Human Services Committee is giving strong consideration to two measures that would go a long way toward lowering health care costs and improving health care quality....
3. Medicare Card – Alcohol Use Brief Intervention CMS is not finalizing removal of the Alcohol Use Brief Intervention Provided or Offered and Alcohol Use Brief Intervention (SUB-2/2a) measure or the Tobacco Use Treatment Provided or Offered and Tobacco Use Treatment (TOB-2/2a) measure in response to comments indicating that these measures still provide benefits that outweigh the costs of retaining them in the […]...
4. Medicare Card – COVID-19 Vaccination Coverage Among Healthcare Personnel (HCP) Measure For the FY 2023 payment determination and subsequent years, CMS is finalizing its proposal to adopt the COVID-19 Vaccination Coverage Among Healthcare Personnel (HCP) measure to the IPF QRP. The measure addresses the quality priority of “Promote Effective Prevention & Treatment of Chronic Disease” through the Meaningful Measures domain of Preventive Care. The process measure […]...
5. Information about the quality of the care hospitals give patients who are being treated for a heart attack information about the quality of the care hospitals give patients who are being treated for a heart attack...
6. A Guide to Choosing Quality Health Care For reliable consumer health and human services information and resources, visit the healthfinder® gateway Web site, developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, at http://www.healthfinder.gov....
7. Medicare Card – Timely Transmission of Transition Record CMS proposed to remove three chart-abstracted measures from the IPF QRP for the FY 2024 payment determination and subsequent years because the costs associated with these measures outweigh the benefits of continuing to retain them in the IPF QRP. CMS is finalizing removal of one of these measures (Timely Transmission of Transition Record (Discharges from […]...
8. VA medical centers can give the veteran’s care-giver (family member or friend) a “break” by taking over the veteran’s care for a limited time VA medical centers can give the veteran's care-giver (family member or friend) a "break" by taking over the veteran's care for a limited time...
9. Study of Health Outcomes in Autistic Children and Their Families The goal of this initiative is to describe the health and health care trajectories of individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and their families, and to evaluate the feasibility of using a large population-based database for research on risk factors for ASD. The most recent prevalence data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that one in 110 children have a diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), an increase of 57 percent between 2002 and 2006...
10. Health Reform legislation, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act On November 19, 2009, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) released health reform legislation, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, that combines the bills reported out of the Finance and Health Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committees....
11. Standard aplastic anemia therapy improves patient outcomes better than newer version A comparison clinical study of two aplastic anemia treatments found that ATGAM, currently the only licensed aplastic anemia drug in the United States, improved blood cell counts and survival significantly more than Thymoglobulin, a similar but reportedly more potent treatment. The research was carried out by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part […]...
12. NEW MEDICARE QUALITY DEMONSTRATIONS IN NORTH CAROLINA, INDIANA TO ADDRESS QUALITY IMPROVEMENT EFFORTS Two demonstrations comprised of a community-wide health information exchange in Indiana and a consortium of several community care physician networks in North Carolina are being implemented to encourage the delivery of improved quality care to an estimated 130,000 beneficiaries in those states, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)....
13. Medicare Card – Preventative Measures Paves the way to Tackling Gum Disease. The unexpected findings could pave the way for the development of preventative measures in tackling gum, by manipulating the normal bacteria in the same way that probiotic yoghurt works to protect the intestine. Researchers at Queen Mary’s Blizard Institute, including Medical Research Council Clinical Research Training Fellow Mark Payne, worked with scientists in the US; […]...
14. Medicare, Don’t Forget about Ballot Measures on Election Day Don’t Forget about Ballot Measures on Election Day: Use this map to find your state’s election website and learn about ballot measures in your area....
15. Medicare Card – Affordable Care Act Dental Coverage Did you know that dental insurance, for the most part, is not covered under the Affordable Care Act?  However, children’s dental coverage is a required benefit included on all Affordable Care Act compliant plans and cost assistance can be applied to any Marketplace plan that includes dental.     Although Dental is not a required […]...