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Trend: Medicaid programs offer P4P incentives
A new survey by the Commonwealth Fund has concluded that more than half of U.S. states have begun rewarding doctors for delivering quality care to Medicaid patients. What's more, almost 85 percent of Medicaid programs plan to have pay-for-performance programs in place within five years, many of which rely on improved use of health information technology, researchers said. The study suggests that states are moving much more quickly than Medicare administrators, analysts say. CMS is …
... Read more...Lawmakers want study of doc hours, error rates
A group of ranking U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee members are asking HHS for a new study of the relationship between physician schedules and medical errors. The group, which has been conducting ongoing research into preventable medical errors, includes committee chairman John Dingell (D-MI), ranking member Joe Barton (R-TX), and Reps. Bart Stupak (D-MI.) and Ed Whitfield (R-KY). The legislators are asking the HHS Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to fund an Institute of …
... Read more...SPOTLIGHT: Disaster-proofing your hospital
If terrorism, avian flu, hazmat incidents or other calamities struck your community, would your hospital be ready to handle the challenge? According to a recent Institute of Medicine report, few hospitals are prepared. But there are strategies which can boost a hospital's readiness for disasters substantially. Dr. George Beranek, an emergency physician with Rockford Health System, suggests that hospitals are far more likely to manage disasters well if they plan collaboratively with …
MDs favor political involvement
Should physicians get involved in political activity? Most say "yes," according to research published in the most recent issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. A JAMA analysis of data from the Institute of Medicine's Survey on Medical Professionalism found that more than 90 percent of physicians felt they should have a public role. (The IOM data was collected between November 2003 and June 2004, and was drawn from physicians in general internal …
... Read more...Group calls for premature birth research
For the fifth straight year, the rate of preterm births rose, hitting 520,000 births completed before 37 weeks, or 12.7 percent of all births, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. An additional 80,000 infants were born before 32 weeks of gestation. In response, advocacy group the March of Dimes is pushing the House of Representatives to pass the PREEMIE Act (HR 2861), which would establish special programs within NIH to study causes of preterm labor and low birthrate. …
... Read more...IOM recommends P4P for Medicare
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommends that the federal government focus less on quantity and more on quality when it comes to treating Medicare patients. The current system reimburses doctors a set amount for performing particular medical services. The IOM finds that this system doesn't do anything to encourage doctors to administer high-quality care. Instead, the report recommends instituting a pay-for-performance system, and it even suggests how to pay for such a program. The IOM …
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