Tag Archives: Readmissions

Novant Health counting on AI to help reduce CHF readmissions

Novant Health has selected artificial intelligence vendor Jvion to assist the organization in launching the Novant Health Institute of Innovation & Artificial intelligence. The 15-hospital delivery system has set forth the goal of reducing readmissions for congestive heart failure. Novant serves parts of Virginia and the Carolinas with a network of 1,600 physicians, 28,000 employees… Read More »

MedPAC’s Proposed “Reforms” Should Be Tested Before They’re Implemented: CMS’s Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program Is Exhibit A

By KIP SULLIVAN, JD  Egged on by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), Congress has imposed multiple pay-for-performance (P4P) schemes on the fee-for-service Medicare program. MedPAC recommended most of these schemes between 2003 and 2008, and Congress subsequently imposed them on Medicare, primarily via the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 and the Medicare Access… Read More »