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Tricia neuman. I wanted to let everybody know that you can tweet with us live with this event. You can tweet your questions. You may tweet your comments. For both the people in the room and also those who are joining us live on cspan. The hash tag is medicare demos. If you would like to access our speaker presentations and you are not in the room with us, you can find them on our website at w www. Allhealth. Org. Im going to turn this over now to our partner Tricia Neuman who will tell us more a...

Untouched by our counterterrorism effort. So in the future just recognize that in order to restore deterrence, were going to have to show capability, capacity, and resolve. Recognize this is an International Arms control agreement and not a very good one although there are some advantages, recognize the advantages as well. But its not a Friendship Treaty, and some people have tried to make it into a Friendship Treaty say its worthless. As a Friendship Treaty it would be worthless but its an arms...

Thank you. Can you hear me . Thank you very much. Im going to start off with a disclosure, which i is on my front slide. I want everyone to know i will talk about home based primary care, a house call clinical model for elders and how that led to the independence at home. My disclosure is, my presentation does not involve cms sponsored analyses. Its my responsibility and no review or verification by them. Hopefully, patrick will be okay with it. Next slide. Im going to talk first about the patie...

Who discussed the change at a talk hosted by the alliance for Health Reform and Kaiser Family foundation. This is an hour and a half. Were going to go head and get started. Im marilyn serafini. Im with the alliance for Health Reform. I would like to welcome you to todays briefing on payment and Delivery System reforms in medicare. So today were going to be looking at the evidence behind numerous experiments that are going on across the country to pay medical providers based on quality rather tha...

Friday night for a couple hours and welcomed the director of the hartford Va Regional Office as well as the director of the Va Connected Health care system to listen to our veterans, and not just about the delays, but the more fundamental gaps in care that we have right now that we are all working hard to fill. Just one example, k. Robert lewis, a veteran Service Officer from the veterans of foreign wars, shared with the audience very compellingly his understanding that many veterans with the vf...

Doing in an attempt to restore order g day, everybody it is monday, august 18th, 204, just after 4 00 oclock right now. Of course wed like to help you, help us, cheer on the taney dragons at Little League world series. Tweet us your well wishes using hash tag fox 29 taney dragons and stay with us all morning long for updates on the team, the entire Community Rallies around this team and their pitcher, sue is unbelievable. Yes, mone, she could in the pitch yesterday because they have resting rule...

Of care. Many experienced obstacles while trying to establish needed care being treated in the emergency room. The lack of followup coordination and quality and continuity of care, many of these is troubling and unacceptable. The most troubling issue described in the report was the awareness of the ongoing scheduling and challenges that many facilities face. Furthermore they had opportunities to address the systemic culture of inappropriate scheduling practices. They did not act to address the i...

Referring to the 93 other facilities. We have some initial reporting on those. As of yesterday, given the department 12 individual reports for them to examine and to determine what action would be appropriate in view of the specifics of each of those reports. Very much active. I can tell you that at 42 different facilities of the 93, we found the practice of using the next available date as a desired date. It is something we reported in the final report and interim report. We have 19 facilities,...

Management that pushed. It is a combination. When something is going on for as many years, not everywhere, but at a number of facilities, it is an accepted way. Involved in scheduling, and they come in as a new hire, someone says, this is hour you do t they may not realize that someone is telling them the improper way to do it. It is a combination of things, the bottom line is, who is in charge. When you get them a policy directive from vha, do you enforce it or ignore it . That is the bottom li...

Cannot get into specific takeaways. But what have you learned about of v. A. Over that period time not down to the specifics . Referring to the 93 other facilities . Have some initial reporting on those as of yesterday. We have given the department 12 individual reports for them to examine and determine what action would be appropriate in view of the specifics of each of those reports. 93 are stillur very much active. At 42can tell you that different facilities of those 93 we found the practice ...