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
Partnership for Patients: Task 2 Evaluation Progress Report Resource Library January 28, 2015September 24, 20180 Partnership for Patients: Task 2 Evaluation Progress Report / February 2014 The Partnership for Patients (PfP) campaign was launched in April 2011 with the ambitious goals of reducing preventable hospital-acquired conditions (HACs) by 40 percent and 30-day hospital readmissions by 20 percent. To reduce harm at this level of magnitude, the
MediCaring Blog: CMS CCTP Metrics Have Serious Flaws Methods News January 28, 2015March 2, 20201 by Joanne Lynn (Republished with permission) The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has quietly put out two evaluations of the readmissions work-- and both documents are remarkable for their failure to evaluate the programs fairly or to provide insights as to what works in what circumstances. The Community-Based Care Transitions