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Telehealth cuts readmission rates, earns system a speedy return on investment
Saint Vincent Health System in Erie, Pa., reports that using telemedicine technology has reduced readmissions in its 26 Pennsylvania facilities--and also netted a 100% return on investment in just two months.
Geisinger plan reduces readmissions 44% with telemonitoring
Geisinger Health Plan, based in Danville, Pa., reports that its use of a home telemonitoring program for patients with congestive heart failure reduced their readmission rate by 44 percent, compared
Geisinger merging with Bloomsburg Health
Following approval to merge with Shamokin Area Community Hospital two months ago, Geisinger Health System and Bloomsburg Health System today signed a definitive agreement to merge, reports Daily
Geisinger ordered to pay back $1.3M after overbilling Medicare
Perhaps a savvy and timely PR move by Geisinger? A day after the system's Danville, Pa.-medical center agreed to pay the feds $1.3 million over "erroneously submitted" improper Medicare claims, it
Can EHRs give clinical trials an assist?
One of the challenges of getting new medications and treatments approved is pulling together the important clinical trials. A new shift does appear to be emerging that could make it easier to
Federal bill would link Medicare hospital pay to quality
Now here's a bill that would scare me a bit if I were a hospital administrator--even if it was inevitable (and it is) that such a measure would be written. Sens. Max Baucus (D-MT) and Chuck Grassley
CMS pays $16.7M to groups in P4P demo, but few get big bucks
You've gotta love it when CMS gives out money above and beyond the usual reimbursement rates--and it's even better when the bonuses work out for pretty much everyone involved. That's the cheery story
