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- Improve delivery of patient care with integrated case management
The pressure is on for case managers to reduce readmissions and prolonged LOS, which may be caused by a lack of integrated care management.
- CMW News: Drug industry agrees to fund portion of Medicare doughnut hole
The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, following negotiations with lawmakers, announced an agreement that calls for the industry to spend $80 billion over the next decade to assist Medicare beneficiaries and defray medication costs. The agreement calls for pharmaceutical companies to pay as much as half the cost of brand name drugs for lower- and middle-income senior citizens in the so called Medicare “doughnut hole.”
- CMW Tip of the Week: MedicareFind.com launches
HCPro, Inc. is pleased to announce the launch of MedicareFind.com, a new regulatory database product that allows subscribers to easily find Medicare-related source authorities. The new database allows searching and sorting by date, year(s), document type, (e.g., transmittals), or information sources (e.g., OIG, CMS).
- CMW News: Obama administration calls for more hospital payment cuts
In an effort to reform healthcare and reduce costs, President Obama has called for $313 billion in healthcare spending cuts.
- CMW Tip of the Week: Analyze your registration process
Patients typically arrive at the hospital as planned, urgent, or emergent admissions, and are registered in different ways.
- CMW news: CMS answers providers' RAC questions
CMS has been providing information on recovery audit contractors (RAC) to healthcare providers in RAC outreach programs and during Open Door Forum calls. And now the agency is also publishing RAC questions and answers on its Web site.
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