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• Looking for answers: What is driving the cost of care? Where do we start to address these costs?
• Stop the revolving door of hospital readmissions – Learn more about Care Transitions.
• We’re driving down utilization for two state Medicaid programs … and Florida makes three!
• Ready to make the jump to an Electronic Health Record? We can help you qualify for federal incentive payments.
• We are making great strides in helping states improve their Medicaid programs.

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Care Transitions Health Care Quality Improvement Project Cuts Hospital Readmission Rate

Patients can be part of the solution to reducing avoidable readmissions. In our experience with coaching, patients have been successful engaging in self-care and have improved their skills in navigating the health care delivery system.

Kaiser Family Foundation: Medicaid Report on Health Care Reform

The expansion of Medicaid under the health reform law will significantly increase the number of people covered by the program and reduce the uninsured in states across the country, with the federal government picking up the vast majority of the cost.

Survival Guide to Health Care Reform (from Louisiana Medical News)

The massive health-system reform legislation dubbed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is law, enacting the most sweeping changes in America’s health system since Medicare. Experts say now is the time providers should take a deep, cleansing breath, then jump into action with short-term strategies that could pay off down the road.

Healthcare Reform Review - American Health Information Management Association

AHIMA has published a comprehensive review of the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” and the “Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010”

Focus on Health Reform - Implementation Timeline

On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed comprehensive health reform, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, into law. The following timeline (developed by the Kaiser Family Foundation) provides implementation dates for key provisions.

The Promise of Care Coordination

This paper systhesizes the evidence on cost-effective interventions and their essential components, identify key issues that still must be resolved for ongoing research and present recommendations for care coordination policies in health care reform that can be supported by the currently available evidence base.