A national study of Medicaid data shows most young people who present to emergency departments with deliberate self-harm are discharged to the community, without receiving an emergency mental health assessment. Even more, a roughly comparable proportion of these patients receive no outpatient mental health care in the following month…
More: continued here
Filed under: Medicare / Medicaid / Tricare on February 1st, 2012 | No Comments »
Family companions who routinely accompany older adults to physician office visits could be helpful to health care quality improvement efforts, according to a new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health…
More: continued here
Filed under: Medicare / Medicaid / Tricare on January 25th, 2012 | No Comments »
Because healthy enrollees cost them less, Medicare Advantage plans would profit from selecting seniors based on their health, but Medicare strictly forbids practices such as denying coverage based on existing conditions. Another way to build a more profitable membership is to design insurance benefits that attract the healthiest patients…
More: continued here
Filed under: Medicare / Medicaid / Tricare on January 14th, 2012 | No Comments »
According to a survey, 45% of 337 retirees on Medicare consider the economy the most vital issue the United States faces in 2012, followed by health care (15%), national debt (21%), and jobs (19%). 43% of survey respondents anticipate that the economy will remain “about the same” next year…
More: continued here
Filed under: Medicare / Medicaid / Tricare on January 4th, 2012 | No Comments »
Although minimally invasive (endovascular) treatments for patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD) result in shorter hospital stays and the potential to save Medicare millions of dollars each year, a new study reveals that the quality of care and cost depend on who’s providing the treatment…
More: continued here
Filed under: Medicare / Medicaid / Tricare on January 4th, 2012 | No Comments »
A new legislative proposal by The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) aims to expand the use of telemedicine for Medicaid enrollees with high-risk pregnancies and neonatal care needs. If the plan should be adopted, it would mean an improvement in providing care for people who are at-risk, whilst creating substantial long-term savings for the government as […]
Filed under: Medicare / Medicaid / Tricare on December 26th, 2011 | No Comments »
A new legislative proposal by The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) aims to expand the use of telemedicine for Medicaid enrollees with high-risk pregnancies and neonatal care needs. If the plan should be adopted, it would mean an improvement in providing care for people who are at-risk, whilst creating substantial long-term savings for the government as […]
Filed under: Medicare / Medicaid / Tricare on December 26th, 2011 | No Comments »
The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics has prepared a request to submit to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to expand coverage of medical nutrition therapy (MNT) for specific diseases, including hypertension, obesity, and cancer, as part of the CMS National Coverage Determination (NCD) Process…
More: continued here
Filed under: Medicare / Medicaid / Tricare on December 21st, 2011 | No Comments »
High hospital readmission rates in different regions of the U.S. may have more to do with the overall high use of hospital services in those regions than with the severity of patients’ particular conditions or problems in the quality of care during and after hospital discharges, according to a new study from researchers at Harvard […]
Filed under: Medicare / Medicaid / Tricare on December 17th, 2011 | No Comments »
Medicare beneficiaries will be able to get coverage for preventive obesity counseling, CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) announced today. The CMS says this is part of the widening range of preventive services CMS has been adding to its coverage since the signing of the Affordable Care Act…
More: continued here
Filed under: Medicare / Medicaid / Tricare on December 2nd, 2011 | No Comments »