Search results for "medicare"
Hospitals with higher proportion of Black patients hit with value-based Medicare penalties
Mortality rates for myocardial infarction and pneumonia were consistently higher at hospitals that treated a high proportion of Black patients, and that didn't change after implementation of Medicare's value-based payment program, a 10-year study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/01/10/hospitals-with-higher-proportion-of-black-patients-hit-with-value-based-medicare-penalties.htm
10 Jan 2024
Readmissions higher with Medicare Advantage than traditional Medicare, study suggests
Many admissions of Medicare Advantage beneficiaries for acute myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure, or pneumonia were missing from the Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set, and their absence appeared to affect readmission rate measurement.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/06/26/4.htm
26 Jun 2019
January 10, 2024
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https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/01/10/
Study finds wide variation in ED physicians' hospital admission rates for Medicare patients
The results suggest that physician decision making in the ED substantially contributes to whether a patient is admitted and may be a target for interventions to reduce unnecessary admissions, the authors said.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/02/10/4.htm
10 Feb 2021
Study of Medicare claims finds good outcomes with hospital at home
Only 6.2% of Medicare fee-for-service patients who were hospitalized at home had to be escalated to another setting and 0.5% died during the admission, according to an analysis of 2022 to 2023 claims data. Their 30-day readmission rate was 15.6%.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/01/10/study-of-medicare-claims-finds-good-outcomes-with-hospital-at-home.htm
10 Jan 2024
Most Medicare readmissions were for diagnoses different from index hospitalization
Physicians should consider a holistic approach to planning postdischarge care while being mindful of patients' financial and logistical limitations, the study authors suggested.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/07/03/3.htm
3 Jul 2019
Private equity takeovers linked with more in-hospital adverse events in Medicare patients
Rates of falls and central-line bloodstream infections increased in hospitals after they were acquired by private equity firms, despite these hospitals having a younger, higher-income patient cohort.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/01/03/private-equity-takeovers-linked-with-more-in-hospital-adverse-events-in-medicare-patients.htm
3 Jan 2024
Care coordination bundle reduced total cost of care for Medicare and Medicaid patients
The intervention was also associated with decreases in the ED visit rate among Medicaid patients and a reduction in practitioner follow-up visits for both patient groups.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/11/07/3.htm
7 Nov 2018
ED visits after discharge to SNF cost Medicare $24 million in 2019
Sixteen percent of Medicare patients who were discharged to a skilled nursing facility (SNF) came back to the ED within two weeks, and a quarter of those visits resulted in discharge back to the SNF the same day.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/11/01/ed-visits-after-discharge-to-snf-cost-medicare-24-million-in-2019.htm
1 Nov 2023
Medicare readmission penalties don't reflect hospitals' overall readmission rates
Readmission rates for Medicare patients with heart failure, acute myocardial infarction, and pneumonia differed from those for non-Medicare patients with those conditions and Medicare patients with other conditions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/03/28/4.htm
28 Mar 2018