New bill would target improved care coordination for seniors
MDS 3.0 Insider, August 1, 2014
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to MDS 3.0 Insider!
A bill introduced in the House of Representatives would target improved care coordination for seniors, adding it under the Older Americans Act.
Rep. Allyson Schwartz (D-PA) introduced the Care Coordination for Older Americans Act of 2014 to improve upon the Older Americans Act. While the bill, first enacted close to 50 years ago, targets improving the lives of seniors, it fails to look at the need for care coordination, which leads to preventable medical problems.
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to MDS 3.0 Insider!
Related Products
Most Popular
- Articles
-
- Don't forget the three checks in medication administration
- Nursing responsibilities for managing pain
- Prevent dehydration with nursing interventions
- The consequences of an incomplete medical record
- Steps for maintaining patient privacy
- Note similarities and differences between HCPCS, CPT® codes
- Practice the six rights of medication administration
- Q&A: Primary, principal, and secondary diagnoses
- Poor documentation: The consequences
- Skills of effective case managers
- E-mailed
- Searched
-
- coding productivity survey
- program managers job description
- Rothschild MD
- andrew rothschild
- business tips
- How many HCPCS codes are there
- BncH AND 1579 IN 40SELECT 40CHAR4011341CHAR4010741
- BncH AND 2007INVALID40CHR4011341CHR4010741CHR40113
- BncH AND 564240SELECT UPPER40XMLType40CHR406041CHR
- BncH AND EXTRACTVALUE407400CONCAT400x5c0x716b71627