IPRO General Counsel/Vice President Tierre Jeanné-Porter, Esq. has been selected for a “2012 Most Powerful & Influential Woman Award of the Tri-State Area.” Ms. Jeanné-Porter is scheduled to receive her award on September 28th in Manhattan during a Tri-State Diversity & Leadership Conference. The Tri-State Diversity Council participates in the National Diversity Council and champions… Continue Reading
Policy Experts Promote Cost-Containment
Former CMS Administrator Donald Berwick, MD, MPP and colleagues assembled by the Washington DC-based Center for American Progress have outlined a series of cost-containment proposals they believe should be implemented individually or together. These include negotiated payment rates that are binding on all payers; immediate adoption of bundled payment for cardiac and orthopedic procedures, with… Continue Reading
Feds Pilot New Hospital Quality Measures
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is pilot testing two new hospital quality measures it is planning to include next year on its Hospital Compare website (www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov). The measures are a hospital-wide readmission’s indicator and a hip and knee replacement complications and readmission’s measure. Meanwhile, CMS is ready to implement a program… Continue Reading
IPRO Supports Care Transitions Initiatives
Seven of an initial eight federal Community-based Care Transitions Program (CCTP) awards in New York received technical support from IPRO. Created by the Affordable Care Act, CCTP tests models for enhancing care coordination between hospitals and other settings in order to reduce readmissions among high-risk Medicare beneficiaries and thereby reduce costs. Under their current workplan,… Continue Reading
IPRO Secures Special Diabetes Funding
IPRO will shortly undertake a special two-year project to work with Hispanic and Latino seniors on diabetes self-management education (DSME). Under the “Everyone with Diabetes Counts” campaign, IPRO will recruit a minimum of 6,000 enrollees and be responsible for graduating at least 2,500 Hispanic/Latino beneficiaries. Participants will take part in a 15-hour training program led… Continue Reading
IPRO Author Analyzes Effective Care Transitions
IPRO is currently offering technical assistance to communities across New York in an effort to address preventable readmissions of Medicare beneficiaries to acute care hospitals. According to national data, 17.6 percent of Medicare beneficiaries are re-hospitalized within 30 days of discharge from an acute care hospital—with three out of four re-admissions viewed as potentially preventable…. Continue Reading
Feds Announce Dementia Care Initiative
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced a national Partnership to Improve Dementia Care, with a goal of reducing the use of antipsychotic drugs among nursing home residents by 15 percent by the end of the calendar year. Currently, the agency estimates that as many as 40 percent of patients with signs… Continue Reading
IPRO Affiliates with Leading CA Firm
IPRO has entered into an affiliation agreement with Lumetra Healthcare Solutions, a San Francisco-based not-for-profit organization with a long history of innovation in quality improvement and cost-containment. The affiliation enables Lumetra Healthcare Solutions to remain a separate company, focused primarily on West Coast and national clients, while realizing the administrative efficiencies of consolidating financial, human… Continue Reading
IPRO Joins National Payment Project
IPRO has been chosen to work on an important new federal project that could have major ramifications for how healthcare services are paid for in the future. Currently, most services are reimbursed individually, on a unit-by-unit basis that is often criticized as costly and inefficient. Under a national contract won by a multi-state team put… Continue Reading
IPRO Honors New York Providers, Professionals
Four leading healthcare providers and one community organization have been named recipients of the 2012 IPRO Quality Awards. The awards, given annually by IPRO, recognize providers and professionals who demonstrate a high-level of commitment to improving the quality of care provided to New York’s Medicare beneficiaries and Medicaid recipients. The awards were presented during IPRO’s… Continue Reading