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Hospital Readmissions
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Improve care transitions to reduce readmissions
Before an insurer can successfully reduce hospital readmission rates, it should first work toward improving care transitions, according to Highmark.
WellPoint-owned clinics can help reduce hospital readmissions
To help reduce alarmingly high hospital readmission rate throughout the country insurers, including WellPoint, have begun operating their own doctor offices and clinics--the theory is that if insurers can directly provide care for their own members, they could decrease unnecessary readmissions.
Blue Shield, providers save $37M by coordinating care
By partnering with a hospital chain and doctor group to coordinate care for members of the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), Blue Shield of California helped save $37 million for the state program.
Highmark P4P program requires hospitals to lower readmissions
Highmark wants to reduce hospital readmissions to help chip away at the $25 billion they cost the healthcare system, requiring hospitals participating in its pay-for-performance program, called Quality Blue, to track and curb readmissions.
mHealth reaps sweet rewards: Improved readmissions, patient satisfaction
Sentara Healthcare, based in Chesapeake, Va., originally launched its remote monitoring program of chronic care patients, which resulting in decreasing readmissions from 15 percent to 2 percent.
BCBS saves $232M, cuts readmissions with patient registries
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan has helped decrease patient mortality rates, hospital readmissions, emergency department visits and surgery complications--plus saved $232 million in health...
Readmissions drop when pharmacists visit patients' homes
Imagine this: During an appointment with a primary care doctor, a patient pulls out a brown paper bag filled with prescription medication bottles, half of which are open and the pills have spilled
SPOTLIGHT: Illinois Blues targets hospital readmission rates
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois and the Illinois Hospital Association are partnering on a venture to improve patient quality via care transition, palliative care improvements and reduced
