Showing posts with label CMS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CMS. Show all posts

Reform of Medicare's Sustainable Growth Rate: Be Careful What You Wish For

Be careful what you wish for.  The law of unintended consequences.  I'm from the government and I'm here to help .  These were the n...
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The Patient Centered Medical Home, Medicare's Comprehensive Primary Care Intiative and Cost Neutrality

Like this, but with snow Oh my, he was really angry . Back when the teenage Population Health Blog was living in New York, our family had a ...
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Discovering What We Don't' Know About Risk-Adjustment for Hospital Readmission Rates in Medicare

Something like this? When the Population Health Blog agreed with the spouse that it was time to replace the living-room gas fireplace insert...
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I'm From CMS and I'm Here to Help

Writing in JAMA "online first," CMS Administrator Tavenner and colleagues offer a payment reform "framework" that inclu...
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The Dichotomy of Medicare’s Data Release Policy: Moral Suasion and the Limits of Mass Data Transparency

The Disease Management Care Blog continues to welcome blog posts from outside authors. This is another one courtesy of Erik Tollefson, who w...
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Of Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) ACOs, Start-Up Costs, Preliminary Financials and Data Support

The Disease Management Care Blog didn't know there was a " National Association of ACOs " either, but they've just release...
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Health & Human Services Office of the Inspector General: EHRs Can Facilitate Medicare Fraud

EHR fraud police? Disease Management Care Blog readers are well aware that it is a nattering nabob of electronic health record (EHR) negativ...
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Dr. Berwick Discovers Toxic Politics Too Late

Dr. Berwick listens to Ms. Sebelius If you're interested in a post-mortem of Dr. Donald Berwick's failure to be confirmed as CMS Adm...
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Pioneer ACO Program Results: Why Saving Money for CMS Doesn't Mean The Business Model is Viable

According to South Dakota researchers, the predator status of Tyrannosaurus rex can no longer be questioned. After finding one of its teeth...
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The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program: Cautions and Caveats

"Maybe you should go back to the hospital!" Ask most wonks - especially ones who never took care of a patient - about "readmi...
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The "Coporatization" of U.S. Health Care: Why the Good Prognosis for Health Insurers & ACOs May Be Guaranteed

Corporatization The Disease Management Care Blog is ashamed to admit it, but it's reading Edward Klein's The Amateur . While much o...
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