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The Impact of Integrated Care on Healthcare Utilization and Costs: Evidence from the Kansas Health Homes Medicaid Program [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

These individuals are often high utilizers of health care services, with some of the costliest services being hospital admissions and emergency department (ED) visits. Additionally, we found a statistically significant reduction in PMPM Kansas Medicaid costs.

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Learning from primary care in Canada and Europe

The Health Policy Exchange

As a result, an almost entirely fee-for-service primary care system was gradually replaced with a mixture of salary-based, capitation-based, and blended fee-for-service payment models by 2012.

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An Escape Fire for Healthcare

Noreta Family Medicine

An Escape Fire for Healthcare I recently watched a film, called “ Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare, ” a 2012 documentary about how the priorities in the US healthcare system are focused on increasing revenue, instead of on goals that improve health, like preventive care. minutes long.

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Episode 392: Antiracism in Medicine – Episode 27 – Racial and Gender Health Disparities in Youth Suicide: Part 2

The Clinical Problem Solvers

She is the Psychiatrist-in-Chief and Chair of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). The episode also explores how digital tools can help youth manage their mental health, while also noting the need for culturally relevant care providers. 2015.0465 7.

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Parvo Podcast! Erythema Infectiosum, Fifth Disease, and more!

PEMBlog

Youll also learn how to manage exposures in the emergency department, especially when the child has a pregnant caregiver, and why isolation isnt always necessary once the rash shows up. This often requires hospitalization and transfusionin one series, 87% of children with transient aplastic crisis required packed red blood cell transfusions.

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Former FDAer Dr. Ellis F. Unger Joins Hyman, Phelps & McNamara, P.C. as Principal Drug Regulatory Expert

FDA Law Blog

He completed his cardiology training at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1987. Dr. Unger transitioned to the Office of Drug Evaluation-I in 2009, and became its Director in 2012. Unger joined CDER as the Deputy Director of the Division of Cardiovascular and Renal Products.

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Does transitional care management improve outcomes after discharge from the hospital?

Common Sense Family Doctor

Since the turn of the century, the rise of hospitalists and the corresponding decline in the number of office-based family physicians who provide inpatient care for their own patients has magnified the value of optimizing the handoff from hospital-based teams to primary care physicians.