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  • Healthcare Headlines: March 2018

    March 8, 2018 By Kindred Healthcare tags: chronic care, healthcare headlines, Hospice, macra, Medicare, uber
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    Uber Launches Ride Service Tailored to Health Care Providers

    UberHealth hits the market, enabling health care providers to hail on-demand and scheduled rides for patients. Uber is hoping to help reduce missed appointments and the trickledown effect they have on healthcare spending. Read more

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  • Healthcare Headlines: October 2017

    October 23, 2017 By Kindred Healthcare tags: ACA, healthcare headlines, Hospitalization, Insurance, Medicare, repeal
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    Burnout Among Hospitalists

    Study reveals that burnout rates among hospitalists compared with those of general internists who practice in outpatient settings do not differ greatly; however, the groups do differ in the top symptoms they experience. 

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  • Healthcare Headlines: September 2017

    August 28, 2017 By Kindred Healthcare tags: ACA, healthcare headlines, Hospitalization, Insurance, Medicare, repeal
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    CBO Predicts Rise In Deficit If Trump Cuts Payments To Insurance Companies

    The CBO estimates that ending cost-sharing reduction payments to insurers will raise the deficit $194 billion over 10 years, something President Trump is considering. Read more

    End-Of-Life Advice: More Than 500,000 Chat On Medicare’s Dime

    2016 was the first year health care providers were allowed to bill for an advance-care planning session and nearly 575,000 Medicare beneficiaries took advantage. Read more

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  • Healthcare Headlines: August 2017

    August 3, 2017 By Kindred Healthcare tags: ACA, healthcare headlines, Hospitalization, Insurance, Medicare, repeal
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    'Repeal and replace' isn't dead yet: Trump meets with key senators on new proposal

    Trump urged Senate Republicans not to give up on trying to repeal the ACA and is exploring Lindsey Graham’s (S.C.) reform proposal as a potential option. Read more

    Medicare’s Financial Outlook Slightly Improved, Trustees Say

    The financial outlook for Medicare’s hospital insurance trust fund improved in the past year due to health costs rising more slowly than expected and predictions that enrollees will use hospital services less often. Read more

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  • Healthcare Headlines - June '17 in Review

    June 22, 2017 By Kindred Healthcare tags: Chronic Pain, Headlines, Healthcare Finance, Medicare, news

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    One In Three Beneficiaries Now In Medicare Advantage Program

    Medicare Advantage hit a milestone this year, with 19 million beneficiaries enrolled in an MA plan. Enrollment has increased 71% since the Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010. Read More   

    The March Of Rising Healthcare Costs Has Slowed, But It's Still Unsustainable

    While the era of double-digit growth in healthcare costs seems to have ended, the "new normal" pace of around 6% to 7% a year is still unsustainable, according to a new study. Read More   

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  • Healthcare Headlines - May 2016

    May 27, 2016 By Kindred Healthcare tags: Home Health, house calls, Medicare, Nursing Homes, Obama, Quality, Telemedicine, Uninsured

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    Nursing Homes Starting to Offer More Individualized Menus

    On a recent Thursday, the staff at Sunny Vista Living Center in Colorado Springs bustled in the kitchen.  

    AHRQ Reports Continued Gains in Health Care Quality

    Health care quality is improving overall, especially in hospitals, and more people have health care coverage and a usual source of medical care since the Affordable Care Act took effect, according to a new report by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Read more.  

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  • Healthcare Headlines - April 2016

    April 29, 2016 By Claudia Lab tags: AHA, Caregiver, CDC, fall rates, Home Health, Hospitals, Innovation, jobs, Medicare, OSHA, patient experience, Readmission, Technology, Zika

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    AHA Issues Guide for Improving the Patient Experience through the Physical Environment

    One way for hospitals to improve patient satisfaction is to focus on their physical environment, according to a new guide by the AHA's Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence initiative and American Society for Healthcare Engineering. Read More    

    Hospitals Eye Community Health Workers to Cultivate Patients' Successes

    Donnie Missouri, 58, doesn't have medical training. He started his health career in the linens department in Johns Hopkins Hospital. Read More

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  • Healthcare Headlines Week of January 11, 2016

    January 15, 2016 By Kindred Healthcare tags: CES, CMS, Fall prevention, Kynect, Medicare

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    Healthcare Expected to Drive Big M&A Activity Again in 2016

    Healthcare providers and the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries are expected to produce the most merger and acquisitions activity this year behind only the technology sector, according to a new survey by accounting and consulting giant KPMG. Read More   

    Twenty Years in, the Hospitalist Landscape is Shifting-and Prompting New Debates

    The drive for efficiency in health care has led to a boom in hospitalists-and growing pains for the profession as hospitals seek to increase efficiency and demonstrate high quality outcomes, reports the New York Times. Read More  

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  • President Obama Delivers Opening Remarks at WHCOA

    July 14, 2015 By Maggie Cunningham tags: Kindred, Long-Term Care, Medicaid, Medicare, Older Americans Act, POTUS, Social Security, WHCOA, White House

    The White House Conference on Aging (WHCOA) is held only once every ten years. This year, it happens to fall during the 50th anniversary year of Medicare, Medicaid and the Older Americans Act, as well as the 80th anniversary of Social Security.  The conference provides an opportunity to recognize the importance of these key programs, in addition to providing foresight into new and evolving issues that will shape the landscape for the growing population of older American’s over the next ten years.  

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  • Kindred Shares Insights with Senate Finance Committee to Improve Care for Chronically Ill Patients

    July 2, 2015 By Kindred Healthcare tags: chronic care, Chronic Care Working Group, CMS, Medically Complex, Medicare, multiple medical conditions, Senate Finance Committee

    The U.S. Senate Finance Committee recently established a dedicated Chronic Care Work Group in order to develop legislative solutions to improve care for Medicare beneficiaries living with chronic conditions. In order to guide and inform their efforts, the Committee reached out to stakeholders in order to seek recommendations, examples of real world experience and thoughtful discourse in order to help improve care for this vulnerable patient population. Kindred responded to the opportunity and submitted a response to the Chronic Care Work Group.

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