Category Archives: Transitions of Care and Home Care

It Pays to Reduce Preventable Readmissions Now: A Discussion of Return on Investment

September 29, 2011 – 8:42 pm

Author: Eric Tate -  Director of Sales, Care Team Connect Care Team Connect helps you transform healthcare today by answering two questions: What’s the secret to sustaining viability during the transition required by healthcare reform? Where’s the ROI in reducing preventable readmissions now? Patients first – My grandmother called it the will to live. And [...]

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For Good or For Now: A Brief Discussion of the Medicare Spending Growth Slowdown

August 29, 2011 – 4:31 pm

Author: Bill Brody There has been some buzz recently about the altogether-welcome-but slightly-surprising slowdown in Medicare Spending Growth. Peter Orszag mentioned it here yesterday, and referenced an earlier discussion of it by Maggie Mahar on her HealthBeat blog here. Ms. Mahar even goes so far as to say in her opening paragraph that this deceleration [...]

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The Mysteries of Pittsburgh: Highmark’s Interesting Gamble

June 30, 2011 – 5:04 pm

Author: Bill Brody I love it when the phrase “Move away from traditional models,” appears in a health care article. It keeps me reading. After all, who wants to read about the same old, same old. It’s great to see people taking chances. It tacitly implies that the system is broken and that hey, we’re [...]

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Top 5: How to Identify Patients in Need of Transition Coaching

March 3, 2011 – 1:39 pm

Ed. Note: This is the first in a series of posts that will discuss and share best practices related to transitions of care and preventing readmissions utilizing an easy-to-follow Top 5 format. Please check back weekly for updates, or follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/careteamconnect to be notified when new entries are published. Author: Carrie [...]

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Outsourcing: Selecting a Vendor

December 20, 2010 – 5:04 pm

Ed. Note: This is the fourth in a series of posts that will deal directly with establishing a transitions of care program. Please check back weekly for updates, or follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/careteamconnect to view earlier entries and to be notified when new entries are published. Author: Dr. John Loughnane, MD One of [...]

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Developing an Internal Program – Job Descriptions and Hiring

November 30, 2010 – 3:29 pm

Ed. Note: This is the third in a series of posts that will deal directly with establishing a transitions of care program. Please check back weekly for updates, or follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/careteamconnect to view earlier entries and to be notified when new entries are published. Author: Carrie Kozlowski, OT, MBA Most organizations [...]

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Risk Driven Resource Allocation: Clinical and Telephonic Resources

November 15, 2010 – 2:58 pm

Ed. Note: This is the second in a series of posts that will deal directly with establishing a transitions of care program. Please check back weekly for updates, or follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/careteamconnect to view earlier entries and to be notified when new entries are published. Author: Carrie Kozlowski, OT, MBA Hopefully, you’re [...]

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Keys to Developing a Transitions of Care Program to Prevent Readmissions

November 4, 2010 – 9:45 pm

Ed. Note: This is the first in a series of posts that will deal directly with establishing a transitions of care program. Please check back weekly for updates, or follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/careteamconnect to be notified when new items are published. Author: Carrie Kozlowski, OT, MBA Perhaps the greatest obstacle facing most organizations [...]

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Double Dip or Double Trouble or Somewhere in Between?

July 2, 2010 – 5:53 pm

We’ve talked a good amount about the impending Medicare payment penalties for hospitals that have 30-day readmission rates for CHF, heart attack and pneumonia worse than national averages.  Frankly, these imminent payment changes have caused a great deal of excitement about the CTC approach.  What we didn’t know and that we learned this week from [...]

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Advantage: MA or FFS? Asking Questions that Need Answers

June 23, 2010 – 5:50 pm

Across the past two weeks, we’ve seen plenty of punditry discussing both the functional and political impact of the scheduled reimbursement cuts for Medicare Advantage (MA) plans authorized in PPACA.   This back and forth between supporters and detractors of MA plans is indeed one of the many follow-on brush fires ignited by the still glowing [...]

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