Anna Gorman is a senior correspondent for KHN based in Los Angeles. She joined from the Los Angeles Times, where she worked for nearly 15 years covering health care, immigration and the Mexican border.
New research of more than 800 clinicians found those who knew about a patient's overdose death cut the overall volume of opioids they prescribed by almost 10 percent over three months.
A report by the California HIV/AIDS Policy Research Centers found the number of PrEP users in Medi-Cal increased from 79 in 2012 to 3,295 in 2016. But the authors also discovered that the use of the drug among African-American Medi-Cal enrollees in 2016 was 37 percent lower than the rate among white patients.
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Under the Affordable Care Act, 10 states received grants totaling $85 million to test the use of financial rewards as a way to reduce the risk of chronic disease among their Medicaid populations.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services began requiring hospitals in 2015 to measure and report on their sepsis treatment efforts.
“Overall there would be substantial loss of coverage for low- and middle-income Californians, especially older Californians,” said Laurel Lucia, a health care researcher at the University of California-Berkeley Labor Center.
Patients undergoing dialysis are at risk for low blood pressure, fluid buildup or infections and problems can be overlooked if nurses don’t have enough time to devote to their patients and to transitions between patients.
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More doctors, hospitals, and insurers are starting to see the value of home-based palliative care and are figuring out how to pay for it, said Kathleen Kerr, a health care consultant who researches palliative care.
Two conservative economists at the American Enterprise Institute argue the penalty is “far too small” to be effective.
By reporting to providers any physical or mental changes they observe, volunteers can help improve seniors’ health and reduce unnecessary emergency room visits and nursing home placements.
The much-needed new treatment is underwritten by an unlikely benefactor: Steven A. Cohen, the former head of a hedge fund that pleaded guilty to insider trading charges in 2013.
Paper-based Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) forms are used across the nation, but electronic registries exist only in a few states, including Oregon, New York and West Virginia.
“There are gaps in care, there are gaps in communication, there are gaps in adequate preparation for patients and families."
A study of Veterans Affairs hospitals showed that 44 percent of frail elderly patients were given at least one unnecessary drug at discharge.
The rate of repeated emergency room visits declined by 24 percent, on average, in the first year after caregivers were trained and 41 percent in the second year, according to the report.
Many elderly patients deteriorate mentally or physically in the hospital, even if they recover from the original illness or injury that brought them there.