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Navigating Medicare Advantage: Strategies for Hospitals to Tackle Growing Challenges

EvidenceCare

Written by Carol Howard, VP of Clinical Strategy As Medicare Advantage (MA) continues to grow, hospitals have faced growing challenges in navigating complex policies, payer friction, and financial pressures. “Many of our health systems that have at-risk contracts are expecting headwinds in revenue of up to 20%.”

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Maine Hospital Using AI to Record Patient Conversations

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MaineHealth recently announced it is using AI to automatically record conversations between doctors and their patients during a check-up or follow-up visit. Deborah Vaughan, a patient at the hospital, said she appreciates being able to look her doctor in the eye while talking about her health.

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Will New Medicaid Policies Put Hospital Margins at Risk?

EvidenceCare

Written by Carol Howard, VP of Clinical Strategy After a tough few years marked by the pandemic, staffing shortages, and rising costs, hospitals are finally starting to catch their breath. New data reveals a rebound in hospital margins, offering hope for health systems. and operating margins to 5.2%.

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Friday Reflection 41: Sometimes I Just Need to Complain

Sensible Medicine

A 76-year-old woman presents to a community hospital after waking with garbled speech and right-sided weakness. Case 1: Excess An elderly woman is admitted to a community hospital with a minor stroke. The hospital does an excellent job. By the time she leaves the hospital, she has no residual symptoms. I love my job.

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In Honor of the Three Greatest Words in the English Language

Sensible Medicine

RM is a 72-year-old man who comes to the office for routine follow-up of spinal stenosis, hypertension, and peripheral vascular disease. I was obsessed with the sport long before I began telling people, “I want to be a doctor when I grow up.” Sensible Medicine is a reader-supported publication. It is March.

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Police Save Woman’s Life After Pulling Her Over for Erratic Driving

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They escorted her to a local hospital where she was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor before undergoing surgery to have the mass removed. Palmer reached out to the Mount Pleasant Police Department for a follow up,” the department said. On February 19, 2023, Ms. The officers wrote that she is now doing well and in recovery.

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Weak Evidence Can Hurt Important Ideas

Sensible Medicine

I begin with this semantic point about causal language because it ends up being one of my two main criticisms of the analysis. This occurs because older patients have more drug-drug interactions, decreased drug clearance, and less robust reflex mechanisms to maintain blood pressure when standing up. These were the treatment arm.