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		<title>It Pays to Reduce Preventable Readmissions Now: A Discussion of Return on Investment</title>
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		<title>For Good or For Now: A Brief Discussion of the Medicare Spending Growth Slowdown</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.careteamconnect.com&amp;blog=12471030&amp;post=295&amp;subd=myremcare&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Mysteries of Pittsburgh: Highmark&#8217;s Interesting Gamble</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 17:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.careteamconnect.com&amp;blog=12471030&amp;post=283&amp;subd=myremcare&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.careteamconnect.com&amp;blog=12471030&amp;post=266&amp;subd=myremcare&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sound Off on ACOs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 19:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.careteamconnect.com&amp;blog=12471030&amp;post=240&amp;subd=myremcare&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Top 5: Reasons that Wellpoint&#8217;s New Reimbursement Model is Worth Championing</title>
		<link>http://blog.careteamconnect.com/2011/06/02/top-5-reasons-that-wellpoints-new-reimbursement-model-is-worth-championing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 21:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.careteamconnect.com&amp;blog=12471030&amp;post=235&amp;subd=myremcare&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Top 5: Things We Learned by Surveying You</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 13:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.careteamconnect.com&amp;blog=12471030&amp;post=219&amp;subd=myremcare&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Top 5: How to Identify Patients in Need of Transition Coaching</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 13:39:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.careteamconnect.com&amp;blog=12471030&amp;post=209&amp;subd=myremcare&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Getting the Word Out &#8211; Leveraging Your Success With Marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.careteamconnect.com&amp;blog=12471030&amp;post=193&amp;subd=myremcare&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Growth: Scaling the Program to Reach More Patients</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:39:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.careteamconnect.com&amp;blog=12471030&amp;post=186&amp;subd=myremcare&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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