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Home » Medicare lays down the law on excessive hospital readmissions | MassDevice.com On Call

Medicare lays down the law on excessive hospital readmissions | MassDevice.com On Call

August 6, 2013 By Sony Salzman

MassDevice On Call

MASSDEVICE ON CALL — Hospitals across the country are feeling the heat for potentially unwarranted patient readmissions as more than 2,000 care centers are punished with a total of $227 million in fines.

The charges reflect Medicare’s penalty program, designed to encourage hospitals to emphasize quality of care over the number of patients treated.

Of the 2,225 hospitals affected, those that treat mostly low-income patients have been hardest-hit by fines, according to Kaiser Health News.

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 Third Eye gains yards with a phase II grant for its concussion device
The National Science Foundation offered some support to Third Eye Diagnostics with a $500,000 grant, which the company will use to test its concussion-detection device in athletes, soldiers and emergency room patients.

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The secret to reigning in rampant healthcare spending in the U.S. lies in care quality, or narrowing the wide differences in the way that care is delivered. The top reason for this variation is that doctors still reject evidence-based "cookbook" medicine, going instead their gut, according to Mark Neuman, emergency medicine doc at Boston Children’s, and Vincent Chiang, chief of Children’s Inpatient Service.
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NIH-funded research identified a protein necessary the transparency in the lens of the human eye. The lens is composed of unique cells called lens fibers, proteins called crystallins, water and little else. The tight packing of these materials creates a glass-like medium that allows light through.

This research could have a huge impact in drug development, as successfully getting drugs into the eye has been one of the biggest roadblocks in fighting ocular disease.
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Filed Under: Hospital Care, Medicare, News Well Tagged With: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), On Call

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