MediCaring Communities Book News June 22, 2016October 12, 20210 MediCaring Communities: Getting What We Want and Need in Frail Old Age at an Affordable Cost Published June, 2016 194 pages, 6" x 9" (15.24 x 22.86 cm) ISBN-10: 1481266918 Book List Price $9.95 / Kindle edition $3.49 at Americans want a long life and most of us will get to live into our 80’s
MediCaring Blog: Purchasing Value- Not Yet Right for Medicare’s Frail Elders Resource Library February 26, 20150 Republished with permission from: http://medicaring.org/2015/02/25/purchasing-value/ By Joanne Lynn In late January, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell announced that Medicare would purchase most services on the basis of value rather than volume, aiming for 90% of fee-for-service payments by 2018 [http://www.hhs.gov/blog/2015/01/26/progress-towards-better-care-smarter-spending-healthier-people.html]. Of course, paying on the basis
MediCaring Blog: Protecting Hospitals That Improve Population Health Resource Library January 28, 2015September 12, 20180 Republished with permission from: http://medicaring.org/2015/01/26/evaluation-flaws/ by Stephen F. Jencks, M.D., M.P.H. [Also see companion post by Joanne Lynn, M.D.] Issue. The Medicare Readmission Reduction Program (MRRP) encourages hospitals to reduce readmissions within 30 days of discharge by imposing substantial financial penalties on hospitals with more readmissions than would be expected if the same patients
HHS Health Care State by State Information Data Sources July 7, 2014January 14, 20150 The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) State by State Information page provides statewide data on Medicare and Medicaid. The site uses an interactive map that allows the user to select their state. The user can then view data on recent health insurance enrollments under the Affordable
ProPublica Prescriber Checkup Data Sources July 3, 20140 ProPublica Prescriber Checkup provides prescribing data from Medicare's prescription drug benefit, known as Part D. The data for 2011 includes nearly 1.2 billion prescriptions by 1.6 million doctors, nurses, and other providers. The database lists about 364,000 of those providers who wrote 50 or more prescriptions for at
CMS Medicare Provider Utilization and Payment Data: Inpatient Data Sources May 20, 2014December 18, 20190 That data provided in this source include hospital-specific charges for the more than 3,000 U.S. hospitals that receive Medicare Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) payments for the top 100 most frequently billed discharges, paid under Medicare based on a rate per discharge using the Medicare Severity Diagnosis Related Group (MS-DRG)