ICU admissions among Medicare beneficiaries on a decade-long downward trend
1. Intensive care unit (ICU) admission rates decreased from 2006 to 2015. 2. No association was found between percentage change ...
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Medicare bundled payments for lower extremity joint replacements results in fewer discharges to post-acute care facilities
1. Medicare patients randomized to the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) bundle payment model were less likely to be ...
Prescribing generic alternatives to brand-name combination medications can significantly reduce Medicare spending
1. In this retrospective cost analysis, Medicare spending exceeded $2.9 billion for the 10 most costly brand-name combination medications available ...
Hospice care may not decrease Medicare costs in patients on maintenance dialysis
1. In this cross-sectional study, of those patients on maintenance hemodialysis that were referred to hospice care, 41.5% received care ...
Survey suggests physicians and Medicare skilled home health care clinicians lack interaction
1. About 80% of physicians seldom or never communicated with skilled home health care (SHHC) clinicians about information on the ...
Medicare’s condition-specific readmission measures are poor reflectors of hospital quality
1. High variability was observed within hospital risk-standardized excess readmission ratios. 2. Ratios among Medicare reported medical condition group often ...
Accountable Care Organizations linked to modest increase in appropriate cancer screening
1. Enrollment in Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) was associated with a decrease in breast cancer ...
Value-based payment modifier program not associated with differences in performance program measures
1. Taking into account additional patient characteristics largely influenced performance differences between practices serving high and low risk patients. 2. ...
Nearly half of potentially preventable Medicare spending focused on frail elderly patients
1. High-cost frail elderly persons account for almost half of the potentially preventable Medicare spending. 2. The greatest amount of ...
Expansion of medical home program to Medicare patients not linked with improved quality or cost-reduction
1. The “medical home” program by CareFirst is a commercial quality improvement initiative designed to improve care and reduce cost ...
