Case Study: Outpatient Provider

hikes in co-pays, insurance premiums and “other out of pocket expenses” (FTC.gov, 2011). Moreover, in violation of the Clayton Antitrust Act, the merger would have reduced acute-care inpatient services, and primary care physician services from three provider systems to two creating a monopoly and

Process Improvement Paper Military Treatment Facilities (MTF’s) currently use an outpatient electronic health record called the Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application (AHLTA). This system is designed uniquely for the military population with the ability to ensure no matter where active duty members are stationed, their medical records are accessible and available to providers. Unfortunately, since AHLTA’s implementation, there have been serious deficiencies with this EHR. For

Abstract Anxiety is a comprehensive response to stress, which may be present in any patient scheduled for surgery. Physicians have performed surgeries for many decades in hospitals, outpatient centers and office-based settings. Each setting offers different benefits to patients and providers but can also influence the anxiety levels of patients undergoing procedures. The office- based anesthesia has the potential to promote effectiveness due to decreased costs, increased patient and surgeon convenience

United States and being the largest care delivery system, it is hard to ignore their presence in the ever changing health care delivery system. Some say, that where Medicare goes, private payers will follow. Today, hospitals, health systems and other providers have been highly influenced by Medicare. Medicare, Medicaid, the Children 's Health Insurance Program, and the Health Insurance Marketplace are leading the way in the movement to provide coverage under this system. As the Affordable Care Act is ironed

Adoption of e-prescribing at the VA will allow non-VA providers to electronically transmit prescriptions to the VA outpatient pharmacy. This change will bring an opportunity to align itself with the e-prescribing component of Meaningful Use requirement. It will also accommodate an increasing number of prescriptions from providers outside the VA pharmacy since the Choice Act of 2014. What are some specific benefits or ROI resulting from its implementation? 1) Improvement in clinical outcomes Adoption

psychiatric centers and oversees more than 4,500 programs that are operated by local governments and nonprofit agencies. These programs include various inpatient and outpatient programs, emergency, community support, residential and family care programs. OMH is responsible for statewide oversight and monitoring of the Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) program. Introduction On August 9, 1999, Governor Pataki signed Kendra 's Law, creating a statutory framework for

lot of confusion, as each plan can have many different payment systems within itself. To review all the different ways healthcare services are paid will take alot more then a few paragraphs. Private payors have contracts with employers and with providers. Each plan can be different in the payment of services. In my personel experience, contract especially at truma hospitals are typically based on % of charges. Lets dive deeper into the the Government’s

dispensary treatment expenditure, although their discussion seemed to indicate so. Studies from the COMDIS-HSD estimated the direct medical expenditure that TB patients spent from the first contact of health care to completion of TB treatment in the TB designated hospitals/TB dispensaries. They only included TB patients without serious comorbidities to reduce the case-mix problem for comparison. These studies reported lower out-of-pocket medical expenditure occurring in the integrated model as

As seen in this case study, TM was listed as a full code and no GOC conversation was had between the physicians and the patient until the day of his discharge to home. This led to an unnecessary swallowing study in which the patient needed to be uncomfortably scoped. Due to the lack of GOC conversation the patient also chose to go home with general nursing services instead of end-of-life (EOL) hospice support. In the inpatient medical oncology floors of a large teaching hospital like this one, most

Improving Care Continuity: The Effect of Discharge Handoff Communication Currently, at Rutland Regional Medical Center (RRMC) there is no structured process for case management to provide handoff to the primary care offices when patients are discharged from the hospital. The transition of care from hospital to home is a critical time, during which the risk of adverse event occurrence is high. According to Shivji, Ramoutar, Bailey, & Hunter (2015), 19%-23% of patients experience an adverse event