As hospital readmissions strain healthcare systems, pharmacies are rethinking the role they play in the connected healthcare workflow. Hospitals want to enable pharmacists to provide more informed ...

As of October 2015, 2,592 hospitals will lose a combined total of $420 million in reimbursements, penalized for failing to meet readmissions targets set by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ...

Establishing preferred provider networks of skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) is one approach hospital administrators are using to reduce excess thirty-day readmissions and avoid Medicare penalties or ...

The countdown to when readmission penalties go into effect under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is well underway. In fiscal year 2013 (which begins October 1), CMS will start ...

MyMichigan Health has been recognized by the Michigan Health and Hospital Association (MHA) with the 2025 Ludwig Community Benefit Award for its innovative Continuing Care Clinics, which have shown ...

To reduce readmission rates, hospitals must consider several factors such as standards for length of stay, medication management, and discharge planning, this new CMO says. Hospitals need a ...

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), nearly 20% of members admitted to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) for rehabilitation following acute medical events are readmitted to ...

As hospitals work to figure out how to reduce unplanned 30-day readmissions, a new analysis examines what some hospitals are doing. In a new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine, the authors ...

The HHS Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has awarded Cedars-Sinai Medical Center LA plus a consortium of five University of California medical schools $9.9 million to determine the efficacy ...

Patients with lung blood clots who smoke are more likely to be readmitted for lung blood clots than nonsmokers, according to Kam Sing Ho, MD, from Mount Sinai St. Luke's and Mount Sinai West in New ...

One of six patients hospitalized in Maryland in the past year ended up back in the same facility within a month, a risky situation for them and a costly one for bill payers. To keep that from ...