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Make Your Voice Heard on Proposed Medicare Benefit
I have a confession to make: Despite painful experience, I am a serial optimist. Over the past several years, I have gotten very excited about new benefits added to the Medicare program as ways to...
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New CMS Code Offers Hope for Radical Transformation of Primary Care for Older...
While still shrouded in mist, the path to transforming our health care system is becoming more clear. While the view is still hazy, last week the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) took a...
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Tools You Can Use: A Non-pharmacologic Toolkit for Addressing Behavioral and...
As part of our Tools You Can Use series, we like to feature new products and resources that improve the health of older Americans. In this installment, two researchers share a free toolkit that...
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CMMI Needs Better Interventions, Not Better Research Designs
Over the weekend, Gina Kolata, a New York Times health reporter, wrote a piece on the work of the new Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) that was created as part of health reform to...
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Toward a More Effective CMMI
Last week on Health AGEnda, I stuck up for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) in the face of what seemed to me fairly unrealistic criticism from a Wall Street Journal op-ed. I...
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Tools You Can Use: Webinar Series Covers Geriatrics-Competent Care for...
Many of the John A. Hartford Foundation’s grant projects are working hard to improve the quality of health care for the older adults who are dually enrolled in both Medicare and Medicaid. As a group,...
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Hartford Foundation and CMMI Work Together to Spread Hospital at Home Model
For two decades, the John A. Hartford Foundation has invested in the development and spread of the Hospital at Home model of care, which provides safe, high-quality, hospital-level care to older adults...
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Geriatric Emergency Medicine: The Time to Act is Now Part Two
One of this blog post’s authors, Teresita Hogan, MD, speaks on care transitions during the Geriatric EM Boot Camp in Milwaukee. Editor’s Note: In our Feb. 19 Health AGEnda post, the team we’re...
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A Trifecta of Good News for Supporters of Elder Justice
For those of us who have long advocated for a national agenda to prevent, detect, treat and report the mistreatment of older adults, developments over the summer have sparked some measure of hope and...
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Medicare’s Advance Care Planning Payment Is a Game-Changer
Amy Berman, on a recent trip to Hawaii. “I have done so much more than survive. I have thrived.” The end of October marked five years since I was diagnosed with stage IV inflammatory breast cancer, a...
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