The American Medical Association (AMA) and UnitedHealthcare announced a collaboration to better address social determinants of health (SDoH) by standardizing how this data is collected and processed through the creation of new ICD-10 codes related to SDoH.
Only about half of hospital leaders and physician practice leaders think they are very or extremely effective when it comes to managing the chronic care needs of patients, and less than half think the same of their efforts to prevent hospital readmissions, according to a recent survey.
Q: When patients transfer to long-term care or skilled nursing facilities, they have basic information with them, but what questions should those facilities ask to make sure they have all the information they need to provide care?
Social determinants of health continue to be a significant external challenge facing the healthcare industry, according to the 9th Annual Industry Pulse Survey conducted by the HealthCare Executive Group and Change Healthcare.
A case manager at a community hospital has a cancer patient who comes to the emergency department and requires hospitalization. The patient wants to transfer to the hospital where she goes for chemotherapy treatments, but due to busy flu season, that hospital has no beds.
Case managers face countless challenges when dealing with end-of-life care, and with less than 50% of Medicare beneficiaries utilizing hospice programming, changes had to be made.
Case managers often run into questions when performing their daily duties. Sometimes they’re related to best practice, and other times they’re related to regulatory issues.
Value-based payment systems like Medicare’s Merit-based Incentive Payment System hold providers accountable for population health measures driven by factors beyond their control, and this has resulted in a misalignment in accountability, according to a commentary in the American Journal of Accountable Care.
