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- Tool Helps Hospitals Plan for Critical Care Surges During COVID-
19 (RevCycle)
- RAND Critical Care Surge Response Tool
- Related: Stanford Potential Long-
Term Intervention Strategies for COVID
- Consistent hospitalist care linked to better patient outcomes, study finds (Beckers)
- JAMA Study: Association of the Work Schedules of Hospitalists With Patient Outcomes of Hospitalization
- Study:Trends in Use of Medical Imaging in US Health Care Systems and in Ontario, Canada, 2000-
2016 (JAMA) - Related: Clinician-
Level Predictors for Ordering Low- Value Imaging - Study: Cooling The Hot Spots Where Child Hospitalization Rates Are High: A Neighborhood Approach To Population Health (Health Affairs)
- Resource Utilization Low Among Patients With First-
Episode Schizophrenia (Psychiatry Advisor)
- The American Journal of Managed Care® Examines How Chronic Hepatitis C and Its Treatment Affect Medicaid Costs (Business Wire)
- Suicide's Link to Nursing Homes, Long-
Term Care (USNews)
- Hospital Discharge Algorithm Saves $860 Per Patient Episode and Reduces Readmissions, According to New Data from Remedy Labs (Businesswire)
- Study:Association of Decision Support for Hospital Discharge Disposition With Outcomes (AJMC)Jama Report: Health Care Spending in the United States and Other High-
Income Countries (JAMA)
- Dartmouth study reveals how ACOs use home visits to improve care and reduce hospital use (MedExpress)
- CMS unveils new rural health strategy:CMS Rural Strategy 2018
- Mortality Lower When Inpatients See Their Own PCP in Hospital (Beckers)
- Study: For Inpatients, Primary Care Docs Outperform Hospitalists – A closer look at data showing lower mortality when patients cared for by their own PCPs (MedPage Today)
- FRG report highlights hospital’s failures, Some board members say budget cuts not enough (OAOA)
- Yale: Collaboration of Health Care and Social Services May Decrease Medical Costs and Visits (ASPPH)
- Study links Blue Cross' big size to Michigan's low hospital prices (Detroit Free Press)
- Study reveals high healthcare costs linked with acute kidney injury (EurekAlert)
- Heroin hospital discharges surpass those due to prescription opioids, Stanford study says (Stanford Med Scope)
- 2017 Employer Health Benefits Survey (KFF)
- Major teaching hospitals produce lower mortality rates than non-
teaching hospitals (Fierce Health)
- Summary Article on Study Results (JAMA)
- New AHA Report Finds Hospital Outpatient Revenue Nearing Inpatient Revenue, While CMS Proposes Paying Less for In-
hospital Healthcare Services (DarkDaily)
- Teaching Hospitals Aren’t More Expensive Than Non-
Teaching Peers (RevCycle)
- Managed Care Programs Improve Care, Reduce Costs (Home Healthcare News)
- FDA Approves Three Immunotherapy Drugs for Patients with Bladder Cancer (NIH)
- Skin cancer on the rise (Mayo Clinic)
- Full Text of Study Article (Mayo Proceedings)
- Surgery won’t help degenerative knee problems, experts say (Reuters)
- Full Text of Study Article (BMJ)
- GAO: Private Health Insurance Enrollment Remains Concentrated Among Few Issuers, including in Exchanges (GAO Report)
- Care shifts from physician offices to outpatient settings and costs go up, HCCI study finds (Fierce Health)
- Heart failure patients readmitted to same hospital may fare better (Heart Association)/
Full Text of Study Article(JAHA)
- American Hospital Association Rejects Findings of New Health Affairs Hospital Pricing Study (Lexology)
- GAO Releases Report Addressing Post-
Acute Care EHR Adoption (HIMSS) - Retrospective study suggests ED physicians improving both outcomes and efficiency of care (MedExpress)
- JAMA Study Abstract: Trends in Mortality for Medicare Beneficiaries Treated in the Emergency Department From 2009 to 2016
- Annual Update of the National Health Security Preparedness Index: Preparedness Index assesses all 50 states & District of Columbia for health security and preparedness
- Kaiser Family Foundation Survey Results:
- A View from the States: Key Medicaid Policy Changes: Results from a 50-
State Medicaid Budget Survey for State Fiscal Years 2019 and 2020
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- Hospitals filling up, encountering a new kind of coronavirus patient (Sun Sentinel)
- Centenarian study suggests living environment may be key to longevity (Science Daily)
- Exciting' Results in Rare Type of Breast Cancer (Medscape)
- National Trends in the Safety Performance of Electronic Health Record Systems From 2009 to 2018 (JAMA Network)
- The Only Hospital in Town Was Failing. They Promised to Help but Only Made It Worse (ProPublica)
- BCBS Companies Hold Almost 50% of Market Share on ACA Marketplaces (HealthPayer)
- Hospital outpatient volume recovering quicker than ED, inpatient: TransUnion (Beckers)
- For Each Day’s Delay in Social Distancing, a COVID-
19 Outbreak Lasts Days Longer (UnivTexasAustinNews)Artificial Intelligence Could Speed COVID- 19 Detection, Treatment (HealthAnalytics)
- Report Summary: How Might AI and Chest Imaging Help Unravel COVID-
19’s Mysteries? (RSNA)
- CIDRAP -
Viewpoint Series on Covid:
- Part 1: The future of the COVID-
19 pandemic: lessons learned from pandemic influenza (University of Minnesota, CIDRAP) - Part 2: Effective COVID-
19 Crisis Communication (University of Minnesota, CIDRAP) - Part 3: Smart Testing for COVID-
19 Virus and Antibodies (University of Minnesota, CIDRAP) - Part 4: Contact tracing for COVID-
19: Assessing needs, using a tailored approach (University of Minnesota, CIDRAP)
- Appeals Court Nixes Fraud Case Against Baylor Scott & White Health (RevCycle)
- Key Issues Related to COBRA Subsidies (KFF)
- Newly Released Data Show Heavy Virus Toll at Nursing Homes (USNews)
- State-
by- state breakdown of adjusted hospital expenses per inpatient day for 2018 (Beckers)
- Related Kaiser Health Facts: Hospital Adjusted Expenses per Inpatient Day by Ownership (KFF)
- Opinion: NM Health care bill would expand coverage but may not save as much money (SantaFeNewMexican)Philly Hospital Fights Bid To Quash Subpoena In Merger Case (Law360)
- Covid-
19 is damaging the health care system, but it's devastating primary care (Buffalo News) - Hospital Margins Plummeted 174% in April (HealthLeaders)
- Infection Control Deficiencies Were Widespread and Persistent in Nursing Homes Prior to COVID-
19 Pandemic - (GAO) Full Report (PDF) What is a National Patient Identifier and Why is It Important? (EHR Intelligence)
- Cleveland Clinic develops risk calculator to predict COVID-
19 test results: 5 details (Beckers) - Adventist HealthCare Fort Washington Medical Center First Hospital to Unveil STAAT Mod™ – New Prefabricated ICU Inpatient Wing to Care for COVID-
19 and Critical Patients (Businesswire) - Major Boston hospital finds dramatic drop in stroke, heart attack, and cancer patients during coronavirus pandemic (Boston Globe)
- Heart Attack Cases at ERs Fall by Half – Are COVID Fears to Blame? (USNews/HealthDay)
- SCAI issues position statement on the performance of percutaneous coronary intervention in ambulatory surgical centers (Eureka!)
- Telehealth use jumps at inpatient settings (HealthDive)
- State demands more detail in plan to close inpatient beds at Providence Behavioral Health Hospital in Holyoke (MassLive)
- FAIR Health Analysis: COVID-
19 Hits Health System Revenues Harder in Northeast (AJMC) - A New Report Confirms Significant Benefits in Patient Reported Outcomes at One Year Following the Non-
Surgical Zephyr Valve Procedure for COPD/Emphysema (Businesswire)
- ATS Report Effect of Zephyr Endobronchial Valves on Dyspnea, Activity Levels and Quality of Life at One Year(ATS Journals)
- Report looks to improve quality measures for medical care of homebound older adults (MedExpress)
- Honing Chemo Use in Small Breast Tumors (Medpage)
- Opinion: The Coronavirus Is Killing Too Many Nursing Home Residents (NYT)
- AHIP Releases COVID-
19 Priorities as States Consider Re- Opening (HealthPayer) - Artificial Intelligence Can Track Aneurysm, Boost Patient Care (HealthIT)
- The COVID-
19 Pandemic And Rural Hospitals—Adding Insult To Injury (HealthAffairs)
- Related: 2020 Rural Hospital Sustainability Index (Guidehouse)
- Balancing health privacy, health information exchange, and research in the context of the COVID-
19 pandemic (JAMIA) - Manual processes and a lack of alignment with consumer expectations may be creating patient collections delays for a majority of providers, a new survey suggests (RevCycle)
- Survey: Physician Practice Patterns Changing As A Result Of COVID-
19 (PRNewswire) - Predictive Analytics Identifies Patients at Risk of Pancreatic Cancer (HealthIT)
- EHR Tools Flag High-
Risk Patients, Detect Undiagnosed Dementia (EHRIntel) - Coronavirus Patients Caught In Conflict Between Hospital And Nursing Homes (KHN)
- How Much More Than Medicare Do Private Insurers Pay? A Review of the Literature (KFF)
- US Court of Appeals upholds Iowa certificate-
of- need law (Beckers) - CDC plans to roll out app in May to speed up COVID-
19 case reporting (FierceHealth) Related: eCR Now for COVID- 19 Reporting - Hundreds of nursing homes with cases of coronavirus have violated federal infection-
control rules in recent years (Washington Post) Related:
- COVID-
19 Shows Gaps in Controls at Nursing Homes (WebMD) - Arkansas nursing homes struggle to keep covid-
19 at bay (Arkansas Democrat Gazette) - Lawsuits over COVID-
19 handling in nursing homes raise questions about standard of care (Canadian Press) - Hundreds of nursing homes with cases of coronavirus have violated infection control rules (Anchorage Daily)
- Kentucky nursing homes failed at basic infection control for years. Then COVID-
19 hit (Lexington Herald) - In Virginia, 77% of nursing homes recently had infection control problems. Then came the coronavirus (Virginian Pilot)
- State [Connecticut] nursing homes have COVID-
19 infection rates of as high as 61% (Connecticut Mirror)
- 2.3% Medicare Payment Hike Planned for Skilled Nursing Facilities (RevCycle)
- Related: Federal Register Medicare Program;
- Prospective Payment System and Consolidated Billing for Skilled Nursing Facilities; Updates to the Value-
Based Purchasing Program for Federal Fiscal Year 2021 - Majority of commercial patients may receive surprise bill following ambulance ride (HealthcareDive)
- Medicare Advantage Plans Target Social Isolation In New Programs (HealthPayer)
- CMS eases requirements for transferring non-
COVID- 19 infected patients (Modern Healthcare) - ERs have been quiet during COVID-
19. What happens when the patients come back? (FierceHealth) - Medicare Data Reveal Wide Variety Across Regions Of COVID-
19 Fatality Risk (HealthAffairs) - 2021 Medicare Advantage and Part D Rate Announcement Fact Sheet (CMS)
- Healthcare Reimbursement Still Largely Fee-
for- Service Driven (RevCycle) - AHA seeks $25K per hospital bed from emergency relief fund (Beckers)
- New Biomarker Could Help Detect Alzheimer’s Disease Earlier (HealthIT)
- FAQs on Medicare Coverage and Costs Related to COVID-
19 Testing and Treatment (KFF) - PwC’s COVID-
19 CFO Pulse Survey (PriceWaterhouse) - Lung Cancer Screening Confirmed to Save Lives (MedPage)
- DOJ Sues Anthem Over Medicare Advantage Fraud (HealthLeaders)
- Related: DOJ says Anthem knowingly submitted inaccurate Medicare Advantage information (MSN)
- 34 States Granted Medicaid 1135 Waivers (Healthleaders)
- Related: Waiver or not, here I come (Guest Column McKnightsHospital Beds Will Be in Greatest Demand by Mid-
April (USNews)
- Related: IHME Forecasting COVID-
19 impact on hospital bed- days, ICU- days, ventilator days and deaths by US state in the next 4 months (IHME)
- Coronavirus limbo: Seniors need to leave hospitals but some nursing homes won’t let them return (Washington Post)
- South Florida hospitals face biggest financial challenge in a generation (Sun Sentinel)
- ICU Bed Capacity Varies Widely Nationwide (NPR/KCUR)
- Planning elective surgery? Think again amid coronavirus outbreak (CBS)
- NJ suspends elective surgeries, invasive procedures (NJBiz)
- Coronavirus in Tennessee: Gov. Lee issues executive order for PPE donations, closes outpatient surgery centers (WATE)
- Gov. Northam orders elective surgeries postponed with 391 confirmed COVID-
19 cases in Virginia (MSN/WHSV)
- 10 Percent of U.S. Sites Report Worse than Expected Outcomes for Minimally Invasive Valve Procedure (PennMedicine News)
- How Can Medicaid Enhance State Response to COVID-
19 (KFF Brief) - Are Hospitals Near Me Ready for Coronavirus? Here Are Nine Different Scenarios (ProPublica). Note: the default is for the Santa Cruz Hospital Referral Region [Dartmouth]. Enter your own area to adjust the charts to show localized data.
- Related: These Places Could Run Out of Hospital Beds as Coronavirus Spreads (NYT)
- Evaluating The ACA’s Delivery System Reforms (Health Affairs)
- How Well Does Your Nursing Home Fight Infections? Look It Up Here (KHN)
- In Elderly Surgical Patients, Look for These Risk Factors for Early Mortality: May affect post-
discharge care (MedPage) - Tests for prostate cancer 'fingerprint' in blood could improve care (UPI/HealthDayNews)
- Kidney injury after hip replacement linked to increased complications (Healio)
- More than 60% of the US' coronavirus deaths are linked to a Washington nursing home. Here's what we know about the outbreak there (MSN)
- FTC sues to block Philadelphia hospital system merger (Axios)
- Inpatient Hospital Time Higher for Older Dialysis Patients (MedPage)Hospitals Maintained Margin Performance in 2019 in the Face of Rising Expenses, Says Kaufman Hall Report (Cision)
- Michigan Senate clears Certificate of Need changes (Iosco News Herald)
- Related: Split Michigan Senate OKs changes to regulation of hospitals (Seattlepi)
- Bill passed by W.Va. delegates could make Certificates of Need transferable (TimesWV)Florida Lawmakers propose stiffer nursing home inspection requirements but still seek more leeway for regulators (Naples Daily)
- Office of Health Strategy launches guidebook to explain Certificate of Need process (Journal Inquirer); Related: CT CON Guidebook (pdf)
- Housing advocacy group and developer sue Simi Valley over denial of senior community with assisted lving and memory care units (VC Star)
- Assessing National Trends and Disparities in Ambulatory, Emergency Department, and Inpatient Visits for IBD in the U.S. 2005–2016 (Medscaspe)
- Questioning the Effect of Recent Wage Changes [Medicaid] on NJ Nursing Homes (NJ Spotlight)
- Frequent Inpatient Consults Up Care, Cost but Not Outcomes (Medscape)
- No more 'heads in beds': Outpatient visits outpace inpatient, Deloitte finds (Beckers)
- Related: The gap between inpatient and hospital outpatient revenue narrowed, with outpatient dollars accounting for nearly half of total hospital revenue by 2018, a new report shows (RevCycle)
- Outpatient Visits to Hospitals Decline Year-
to- Year for First Time in 35 Years, Affecting Clinical Laboratories and Other In- hospital Services (DarkDaily) - What Providers Need to Know About COVID-
19 Coding (RevCycle) - Poor Outcomes [Covid-
19] Linked to Health Disparities (AANP) - State grants certificate of need for new psychiatric hospital in West Knoxville (wbir)
- Study: Nursing homes have more hospital admissions, resident diversity since passage of OBRA ‘87 (McKnghts)
- Mercy Hospital Owners Exploring Options To ‘Transition Campus’ In Order To Keep Hospital Viable (MSN/CBS Philly)
- Related: City notified about potential closing of West Philly Mercy Hospital’s inpatient facility (WHYY)Psychiatric hospital rejected 3 years ago still wants to add Portland-
area inpatient beds. Deep in ‘crisis,’ Unity says there’s no need. (OregonLive) - NJ Legislators Call on [Govenor] Murphy to Intervene in Effort to Save Local Hospitals (Tapinot Bayonne)
- New model may help predict stroke risk in adults with migraine and aura (Newsroom)
- One in five operations may lead to surprise bills, even when surgeon and hospital are in-
network (MedExpress) - Kentucky Hospital Association asks to join lawsuit defending certificate of need law (Beckers)
- Study:Hospital Use Declines After Implementation Of Virginia Medicaid’s Addiction And Recovery Treatment Services (Health Affairs)
- Implementing a consistent hospital compliance program is key to cultivating a culture of compliance that minimizes revenue risks, so providers can focus on high-
value care (RevCycle) - National identifier not a 'panacea' for patient-
matching, experts say (ModernHealthcare) - Rural Health Disparities Linked to Socioeconomic Status, Care Access (Health Analytics)
- When Site-
Of- Service Policy And Payment Reforms Converge: The Case Of Joint Replacement Surgery (Health Affairs) - Why the New U.S. Maternal Mortality Rate Is Important (USNews)
- NEJM: transcatheter aortic valve replacement shows similar safety outcomes as open-
heart surgery (EurekaAlert)
- Preeminent Hospitals Penalized Over Rates Of Patients’ Injuries (KaiserHealthNews)
- Study finds association between therapy time, length of stay after hip fracture surgery (MedExpress)
- Colorado Healthcare Costs Keep Climbing Due to Hospital Cost-
Shifting (RevCycle) - Maryland Hospital Association Issues Comment on Medicare Program: Modernizing, Clarifying Physician Self-
Referral Regulations (Insurance Net) - Forced rate disclosure goes too far, insurers and hospitals argue (Modern Healthcare)
- Commentary: Nursing homes grapple with sick residents, insufficient budgets (TimesUnion)
- Preventable hospital death estimates are too high, study finds (Beckers)
- Florida Hospital Association launches price transparency initiative (FloridaPolitics)
- Details Sparse on [Governor] Murphy’s Office of Health Care Affordability and Transparency (NJ Spotlight)
- Rising inpatient acuity may not mean patients are sicker, Mass. commission finds (ModernHealthcare)
- Patients Want A 'Good Death' At Home, But Hospice Care Can Badly Strain Families (KHN)
- Epic Systems, a major medical records vendor, is warning customers it will stop working with Google Cloud (CNBC)
- [West Virginia]House debates Certificate of Need bill (Weirton Daily)
- The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) is recommending that NIH dramatically revise its data sharing and management proposal to maximize the value of scientific data (HealthIT)
- EHR Data, Claims Data Can Successfully Predict Hospitalizations (RevCycle)
- Florida Legislature eyes more certificate of need' changes for care facilities (Tampa Business Journal)
- Proposed certificate of need' changes questioned at Michigan Senate panel hearing (Crains)Payer mix, patient volumes contributed to Astria Regional's financial issues (Yakima Herald)
- Opt-
In Consent Policies: Potential Barriers to Hospital Health Information Exchange (AJMC) - Minnesota law gives green light to safety surveillance cameras in senior homes (Star Tribune)To Stop Now Would Be Foolish': Doubling Down On Services For High-
Cost Patients (NPR)
- AHA, AAMC Sue HHS Again Over Outpatient Site-
Neutral Payments (RevCycle)
- The 2010s have proved to be an important decade for healthcare innovation and reforms. Here are the top trends that defined the time readmissions, mortality (Healio)
- Here’s how ‘Medicare for All’ would affect every part of the $3.5 trillion US healthcare system (Business Insider)
Related:
- Opinion: What will happen to doctors and hospitals under Medicare-
for- all? It's complicated (The Week). - Rural Hospitals Say ‘Medicare For All’ Would End Up “Closing Our Doors” (WBUR)
- Hospitals Stand to Lose Billions Under ‘Medicare for All’ (NYT)
- Opinion: The risks of ‘Medicare for all’ (Boston Globe)
- Opinion:It’s time for Democrats to get their facts right on Medicare-
for- all (Washington Post)