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

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh: Highmark’s Interesting Gamble

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 [...]

Top Five: Reasons Why Having a Pharmacist on Your Care Team is a Good Idea

Ed. Note: This is the fourth 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: Bill [...]

Sound Off on ACOs

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: Bill Brody June 6th marked the deadline for health care providers to respond to the government’s ACO proposals, however many interested parties did not wait until the last minute to do so. Under [...]

Top 5: Reasons that Wellpoint’s New Reimbursement Model is Worth Championing

Ed. Note: This is the third 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: Bill [...]

Top 5: Things We Learned by Surveying You

Ed. Note: This is the second 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 [...]

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

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 [...]

Getting the Word Out – Leveraging Your Success With Marketing

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

Growth: Scaling the Program to Reach More Patients

Ed. Note: This is the sixth 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 Implementing a [...]

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