Reducing Sepsis Costs with Ltach Utilization

A mobility program was adapted in a study to address the needs in patients of the Veterans Health Administration, as the lack of evidence-based programs targeting veteran’s mobility is a critical and significant gap in community living centers.

Briana Contreras, editor of Managed Healthcare Executive spoke with Luis Mosquera, CEO of Health Network One, a provider of specialty benefit management services for health insurers, in this week's episode. In this discussion, Luis and Briana talked about how value-driven decisions in a more value-based market can not only better manage costs for health plans, but create a plan of care to best meet patient’s needs. In order to do this, Luis strongly encouraged healthcare executives to experience alternative payment models and shared what payers should check off their list with a new model.

Ensuring that patients with serious conditions have access to LTACH care can help improve their outcomes.­­ Discover the distinctions in patient conditions treated at LTACHs compared to SNFs

A study in this month's Health Affairs shows that Medicare Advantage penetration has a ripple effect on the patterns of postacute care usage among those in traditional Medicare. As Medicare Advantage penetration increased, use of postacute care services by beneficiaries in traditional Medicare decreased.

One trend to keep an eye on is the establishment of “care traffic control” centers to remotely monitor patients and use home-based insights to identify risks and inform care plans.