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CMS offers 'one stop shopping' on its provider comparison websites
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has added new features to its websites that compare quality indicators for various types of healthcare providers. At the same time, it has begun
Hospitals with high readmissions get priority in CMS pilot program
Many of Florida's largest hospitals scored poorly enough in Medicare readmissions that they will get placement preference in a new pilot program to cut down on such rates, reports Health News
Med schools, Cedars-Sinai test wireless monitoring to reduce readmissions
Five University of California medical schools plus Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles will study how wireless technologies and telephone care management can reduce the number of hospital
Readmissions continue to inch up at hospitals
Pennsylvania's hospitals readmitted 58,084 patients between October 1, 2008 and Sept. 30 2009, including 21,688 readmissions for complications or infections, according to data from the Pennsylvania
Mobile technologies could help slash hospital readmission rates
Unplanned hospital readmissions cost Medicare $17.4 billion a year, and as many as 76 percent of these events are preventable, says the Center for Technology and Aging, citing a 2009 study in the New
Guest Commentary: Hospitals help ground frequent ER patients
Most of us ignore the homeless at their own peril. We may drive or stride by them without penalty. Yet imagine that every time a homeless person ambled across your path, you were required to bathe,
HCA makes more than $75M with ED coding procedure
Coding is one of those dismal sciences that makes a big impact, but isn't exactly the sexiest part of a hospital's operations. This time around, however, the coding geeks had their day. Hospital
