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Compounded Drugs: Congress Takes an Interest in Growing Compound Drug Industry
Compounded drugs are a new hot issue in the pharmaceuticals industry and in Congress. There are little data about compounding pharmacies, but a new Congressional Research Service brief gives a comprehensive overview. Compounded Drugs Personalize Drug [...]
Health Care Spending and Hypertension: The Cost of High Blood Pressure
Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is related to several major chronic diseases. Obesity and diabetes raise your chance of developing high blood pressure, which in turn makes you more likely to suffer from heart disease and [...]
Medicare Payment Reform: Post-Acute Provider Reimbursement
The term “post-acute care” (PAC) covers a range of services patients receive after a hospital stay. Skilled nursing facilities, home health care agencies, long-term care hospitals, and inpatient rehabilitation hospitals all provide post-acute care. PAC providers [...]
Chronic Care Management: CMS Multiple Chronic Conditions Dashboard
Many new care models in both the public and private sector focus on people with chronic diseases, particularly conditions like diabetes, congestive heart failure, and hypertension. The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Care Coordination/Home Telehealth (CCHT) pilot program [...]
Patient Engagement to Lower Health Costs and Improve Outcomes
It’s not uncommon for a patient to be confused or overwhelmed by a diagnosis or treatment plan. Complicated medical procedures or decisions can overwhelm patients to the point that they feel that they cannot, or should [...]
Chronic Care Management: Technologies to Better Manage Chronic Conditions
The nation’s largest health care buyers – Medicare, state Medicaid programs, large employers, and health plans – are eager for ways to improve the quality and efficiency of chronic health conditions, which drive the bulk of [...]
Hospital Admissions: Trends in Hospital Utilization
Hospital admissions and readmissions are a hot topic in the healthcare community. Reducing hospital utilization can result in a leaner, more efficient system with lower costs and greater health outcomes. The opportunities to save money and [...]
Physician Payment Reform: Preparing for Value-Based Reimbursement
Primary care is shifting to payment based on providing higher quality, lower cost health care. New payment models – such as patient-centered medical homes (PCMH) – replace or supplement traditional fee-for-service payments with per-member per-month payments, [...]
Medicare-Medicaid Dual Eligibles: Measuring Quality of Special Needs Plans and State Demonstrations
Medicare-Medicaid dual eligibles are often held up as a prime case for the need for better care management to reduce health costs and spending while improving quality. But doing so can be challenging. Most dual eligibles [...]
Payment Reform Models: Coordinated Primary Care for Employees
Coordinated primary care models have shown great potential to reduce health care costs while improving care, a goal that will become even more important after the Affordable Care Act (ACA) coverage expansion provisions take full effect [...]
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