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Navigating Medicare Advantage: Strategies for Hospitals to Tackle Growing Challenges

EvidenceCare

Say what you’re looking for and what the risk of discharge is in every single progress note. Build Multidisciplinary Teams for Discharge Planning Hospitals can streamline patient care by creating multidisciplinary teams focused on discharge efficiency. Every day, in every note, say why this patient can’t go home yet.

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Choosing a Control Group

Sensible Medicine

The C-MORE/PHOSP-COVID collaborative group published their results in an important journal—called The Lancet Respiratory Medicine They screened nearly 3000 patients and found about 250 patients who had been admitted and then discharged for COVID-19. The paper is open access so you can see it yourself.

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The Top Patient Safety Risks in 2025 Are Mostly About the “Human OS” – Reading ECRI’s Annual Report

Health Populi

as more patients get discharged to hospital-for-home and more acute-care workflows that fall on burdened caregivers (that is, family members and friends). Here is ECRI’s list of patient safety concerns a decade ago in 2015. Many more of these have to do with “technology” and devices (e.g., With 3 in 5 U.S.

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How BPCI Enhances Patient Experience and Lowers Costs: A Comprehensive Guide

Guideway Care

Cost reduction strategies in BPCI focus on linking payment to performance, utilizing predictive analytics and interprofessional collaboration to lower expenses while maintaining high-quality care. At its heart, the BPCI program emphasizes strong collaboration between healthcare providers as essential for enhancing patient experiences.

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Lessons Learned from a New EHR Implementation

EvidenceCare

Within just 11 months of going live, Baptist Health received the Epic Gold Star Level 10 award, a testament to their operational excellence and collaborative culture. Success Relies on Collaboration At the foundation of Baptist Health’s successful Epic implementation was their culture of collaboration.

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New Insights on Medicare Advantage Plans and The Two-Midnight Rule

EvidenceCare

We’re still facing the same types of denials, especially with short stays where payers push back post-discharge.” Be on the lookout for post discharge audits as the Medicare Advantage plans do not have to follow the two-midnight presumption.

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Jefferson Health Announces Partnership with Prepared Health to Coordinate Care Transitions From Hospital to Home

Electronic Health Reporter

Prepared Health’s platform enables hospitals to connect, collaborate and react in real-time with the multiple providers involved in a patient’s care post discharge including post-acute, […].