Baylor Already Seeing Benefits from Collaboration with Cleveland Clinic – By Gary Jacobson, Staff Writer for The Dallas Morning News Baylor Scott & White Health won’t see its first patients as part of the Cleveland Clinic’s national cardiology network until next year, but the Dallas-based system is already benefiting from the affiliation. Michael Mack, Baylor’s medical director… Continue reading Baylor Already Seeing Benefits from Collaboration with Cleveland Clinic

This pressure injury staging guide comes as a PDF available for download, with pictures. Healthcare providers and family caregivers may find this helpful.

By Christine Vestal, Stateline, featured in Disability Scoop Finding care for children with medically complex or rare conditions can force parents to tap into networks of highly specialized physicians and hospitals scattered around the country. This is especially challenging when the children are covered by Medicaid, because each state-run program has a different benefit package,… Continue reading Lawmakers Look To Improve Care For Kids With Complex Needs

Network squeeze: Controversies continue over narrow health plans “Many patients are simply accepting pure cash pricing for procedures—as if they had no insurance coverage at all—because it is cheaper than if they were to stick with their narrow-network options.” Los Angeles colorectal surgeon Dr. Allen Kamrava regularly faces financial challenges related to narrow-network health plans.… Continue reading Controversies Continue Over Narrow Health Plans

Original article published by David Gorn of California Healthline Zelda Gamble of Long Beach, 74, has diabetes, high blood pressure and severe rheumatoid arthritis that keeps her confined to a motorized wheelchair all day. Gamble is one of roughly 12,000 frail seniors across California who depend on the Multipurpose Senior Services Program, or MSSP, for… Continue reading If California Ends Coordinated Care Initiative, What Happens to Frail Senior Duals?

National Public Health Week starts today! To kick things off, President Obama issued a proclamation recognizing the value public health workers deliver to our country every day. Take a look! NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH WEEK, 2015 – – – – – – – BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Last year,… Continue reading President Obama Celebrates Public Health

A new interactive tool on the Peterson-Kaiser Health System Tracker allows users to analyze the most up-to-date data on U.S. health spending, then build, display and share the charts they create. Developed by analysts at the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Health Spending Explorer helps users examine five decades worth of numbers documenting expenditures by federal and local… Continue reading New Interactive Tool Allows Users to Explore Trends in US Health Spending and Share Custom-Made Charts

Calculating the effect that Aurora’s Oz has had on the community can be slippery.

By Commissioner Jon Weizenbaum – Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services (DADS) It may be entertaining to make predictions about 2015, but I will humbly donate my share of the fun about health care forecasts to the talking heads. However, there are two things I know for sure based on facts at hand: The number… Continue reading DADS Makes Getting Long-term Care Services Easier