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JAMA findings suggest 'unintended harm' from Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program

Dive Brief: New evidence links CMS’ Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program to unintended harm in some patients, a JAMA editorial suggests. Researchers analyzed 8.3 million hospitalizations of Medicare enrollees for heart failure, acute myocardial infarction and pneumonia over four periods from April 2005 through March 2015. Thirty-day post-discharge mortality for heart failure patients rose following announcement… Read More »

LifeBridge Health faces class-action lawsuit stemming from massive cyberbreach in 2016

Law firm Murphy, Falcon & Murphy has filed a statewide class action lawsuit against Baltimore provider LifeBridge Health on behalf of more than 530,000 consumers whose personal information including Social Security numbers, birth dates, names, addresses, health insurance information, client treatment information, and medical diagnoses were stolen. The data breach occurred on or about September… Read More »

Santa’s chief elf ensures 25K kids get a letter from him every Christmas

The guy in the flashy red suit gets all the glory. But in Santa Claus, Ind., it takes a village of little helpers to keep the St. Nick legend alive. Ever since the tiny Midwestern town — population 2,411 — was featured in “Ripley’s Believe it or Not” in 1930, the United States Postal Service… Read More »

Anxiety in COPD Benefits From Cognitive Behavioral Therapy vs Self-Help

December 18, 2018 Share this content: Higher initial costs associated with CBT were offset by savings resulting from fewer hospital admissions and emergency department visits in the subsequent 12 months. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) interventions were statistically and clinically superior to self-help leaflets in the treatment of anxiety in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease… Read More »