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Membership Benefit

Membership Benefit Value – Resources Available As An Alliance Member
The Alliance Is A One-Stop Resource For Proactive Solutions To Healthcare's Emerging Future. The Alliance will continuously scan the healthcare landscape and offer proactive approaches to the evolving healthcare delivery system to position home care as a valued partner. You will have 24-7 web access to our member's only website.


Transformational Leadership - Healthcare Reform Road Map

The Alliance provides the "blue print" for the future of healthcare. Organizations must be fundamentally structured to sustain against all emerging changes. These fundamentals rally around: 1) payment reform, 2) value-based purchasing 3) accountable care organizations, and 4) medical homes. The Alliance provides in-depth information and reports on the emerging healthcare delivery system

Care Transitions

The Alliance provides reports and research on the latest activities specific to care transitions.

Avoidable Hospital Readmissions

In 2012 the government will be adjusting Medicare hospital payments for potentially preventable readmissions. Home care and hospice have opportunities to provide solutions and partnerships. The Alliance website provides the latest models and solutions to avoidable hospital readmissions.

Emerging Technology Models

Technology is the key driver to rapid changes across the healthcare delivery system. Expanded technology is replacing traditional care models. The Alliance will keep your organization up-to-date on prioritizing technology strategic planning and keep your organization informed about technologies that will impact the future.

The members-only website  provides the latest technology opportunities and challenges, and keeps you informed about emerging models changing the healthcare delivery. system. 

Reform Implications

The Alliance provides organizations with a window into the future by providing insight into to the future of the home care industry. How are policy makers observing home care? What can home care expect in the future?

Executive Planning - Innovative Models To Align With Reform

The latest models to integrate home care's value across care settings. This sets the stage for understanding how your agency can creatively position itself by thinking out of the box.


Prepare....Transform....Lead!

The Members Only Website â€“ Premium website content, up-to-date news, research and studies.

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  May/June 2012
Change Is Ahead
To "Un-Silo" Healthcare

 â€˘ MedPAC Report’s – Rebasing,
   Co-Pays, Reductions For Home
   Health
   Plus … Report’s Impact To All
   Providers
Innovative Care Models To Align Health Care Reform

Reducing Readmissions How 3 Hospitals Achieved Their Goals

Palliative & End-Of Life Measures

Scorecard Highlights Where Health Systems And Providers
Fall Short

CMS Seeks Input On Quality Measures For EHRs

Nutritional Support In Treating Pressure Ulcers

Initiative To Reduce Avoidable Hospitalizations Among Nursing Facilities

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Special Reports And Articles

Medicaid 2013 Governor's Report

Medicaid 2013 Governor's Report By State

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MedPAC Report 2012

MedPAC, the Committee that reports to Congress's Home Care recommendations

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Home Care Recommendations To Congress

 

Post-Acute Payment Reform Demonstration

The report describes the development and testing of a uniform patient assessment instrument (CARE: Continuity Assessments Record and Evaluation) mandated by the legislation, and reviews findings related to predicting patient-specific resource intensity across four post-acute care settings. Recommends future payment reform for post-acute settings.

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Readmissions

A Nationwide Analysis Of 30-Day Readmits

( Nov/Dec 2011 Remington Report page 4)

Download Dartmouth Atlas Report (3.8 MB PDF)

 

Study: Home Care Following Hospitalization Cuts Cost

(Sept/Oct issue 2011 Remington Report page 4)

The use of home health care for chronically ill patients after they are discharged from the hospital can reduce Medicare spending and readmissions, according to released by Avalere Health LLC. The study found that home health care was association with a $2.81 billion reduction in Medicare Part A spending during a three-year period ending in 2009. 
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2012 OIG Work Plan

The Remington Report (November/December 2011) separated the OIG Work Plan 2012 into 2-parts. Part 1 looks at the OIG Plan for home care. Part 2 reviews the Plan with respect to how its scope intersects with home care and other providers across the health care delivery system.

Download the detailed 165-page 2012 OIG Work Plan Report (2.2 MB PDF)



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