A Family Member HomeCare, a Broward, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach Home Health Care Agency, Notes Electronic health record technology gets positive physician reviews, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Says

Electronic health record technology gets positive physician reviews 


A national survey of office-based physicians reports that most of those who have adopted electronic health record (EHR) systems are satisfied with their system and say it has improved patient care, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced on July 17, 2012.
According to the survey, 55 percent of responding physicians in 2011 said they have adopted at least some EHR technology in their practices. In addition, 85 percent of physicians who have adopted EHRs said they were somewhat (47 percent) or very (38 percent) satisfied with their EHR system. Additionally, a majority of the physicians said they would purchase their EHR systems again, further indicating their satisfaction with the new technology.
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A Family Member HomeCare of Hollywood, Boca Raton, Florida Notes Alzheimer's Patients Can Do Tasks That Caregivers Assume They Can't | Broward, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach Home Health Care, In-Home Nursing Care

Alzheimer's Patients Can Do Tasks That Caregivers Assume They Can't | Broward, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach Home Health Care, In-Home Nursing Care

In a recent study, caregivers noted that they placed importance on treating people with Alzheimer’s disease with respect and promoting their independence. Yet, it was noted that the caregivers’ actions did not always follow these goals or desires.

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A Family Member HomeCare, a Broward, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach Alzheimer's Home Care Agency, Notes Alzheimer's, Dementia May Trigger Changes In Walking Speed, Stride | Broward, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach Home Health Care, In-Home Nursing Care

Alzheimer's, Dementia May Trigger Changes In Walking Speed, Stride | Broward, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach Home Health Care, In-Home Nursing Care


Subtle changes in the way a person walks can be an early warning sign of cognitive decline and a signal for advanced testing, researchers reported Sunday at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference in Vancouver, Canada.
The findings are the first to link a physical symptom to the disease, which up until now required doctors to begin a diagnosis by focusing on cognition and administering lengthy neurological exams. The evidence in the five studies is "robust," experts say. They note walking changes can occur even before cognition decline surfaces.
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A Family Member HomeCare, A Long-Term Care Home Nursing Services Provider, Notes Genworth Financial "Cost of Long-Term Care Across the U.S." Study


Genworth Financial, a life insurance company, recently conducted a comprehensive study on the cost of long-term care across the United States. The results are listed below:

Use this map to view a state’s or region's median cost of care by type of care.
  • Click a state or region to view cost details, to compare costs across locations, and to calculate projected long term care costs.
  • Scroll down to learn more about the survey and its methodology, to download the full report or state-specific data, and to access survey highlights.
  • Take this data with you! Download the new Cost of Care app from iTunes.

Cost of Care Overview

Research shows that about 70 percent of people age 65 or older will need long term care services at some point in their lifetime1. And while most people think of long term care as impacting only those in senior years, 40 percent of people currently receiving long term care services are ages 18 to 64.2

The Genworth 2012 Cost of Care Survey can help families evaluate options to address the increasing cost of long term care. For the ninth consecutive year, Genworth has surveyed the cost of long term care across the U.S. to help Americans appropriately plan for the potential cost of this type of care in their preferred location and setting. The most comprehensive study of its kind, Genworth’s 2012 Cost of Care Survey, conducted by CareScout®, covers nearly 15,300 long term care providers in 437 regions nationwide.
2012 Cost of Care Key Findings2012 Cost of Care Survey Full Report2012 Cost of Care MethodologyBeyond Dollars
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Obtain an at-a-glance view of costs by category of long term care and an analysis of emerging trends.Explore the industry's most comprehensive report on long term care costs.

Download cost data for your state.
Learn more about how this survey of nearly 15,300 care providers was conducted.Understand that a long term care situation reaches far beyond the significant financial costs, impacting caregivers’ jobs and careers, future financial security, and family relationships.

1 National Clearinghouse for Long Term Care Information, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Planning for LTC. Date accessed, January 18, 2012.
2 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services National Clearinghouse for Long Term Care Information, 10/22/08. 

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A Family Member HomeCare, a Coral Springs, Parkland, North Lauderdale Florida Private Duty Home Care Agency, Notes Affordable Care Act Benefits for Seniors


Breaking It Down: The Health Care Law and Seniors

Ed Note:  This was originally posted on HealthCare.gov, a website by the US Department of Health and Human Services.
The President's health law gives hard working, middle-class families the security they deserve. The Affordable Care Act forces insurance companies to play by the rules, prohibiting them from dropping your coverage if you get sick, billing you into bankruptcy through annual or lifetime limits, and, soon, discriminating against anyone with a pre-existing condition.
For seniors, the new health care law, the Affordable Care Act, not only means more time with their doctor and important new benefits like free preventive services like cancer screenings and annual wellness visits, but it also means more money in their pocket. The new health care law strengthens Medicare. Already, more than 5.1 million seniors and people with disabilities saved over $3.2 billion in drug costs. That comes to an average savings of $635 per person for seniors caught in the coverage gap known as the donut hole. And, 32.5 million people with Medicare have received preventive service without a deductible or copay, thanks to the new law.
Here are more ways the law helps seniors:
  1. You get free preventive services. Medicare now covers certain preventive services, like mammograms or colonoscopies, with no cost sharing. You also can get a free annual wellness visit.
  2. You get cheaper prescription drugs. If you’re in the donut hole, you will receive a 50 percent discount when buying brand-name prescription drugs covered by Medicare Part D. The discount is applied automatically when you fill your prescription—you don’t have to do anything to get it. These changes are already saving seniors billions of dollars. And by 2020, the donut hole will be closed. 
  3. Your doctors are supported to better coordinate your care.  Many doctors, hospitals, and other providers are taking advantage of new programs to help them work better as teams to provide you the highest quality care possible. They are working to get you the care you need at the time you need it. 
  4. The law fights fraud and strengthens Medicare. The Affordable Care Act builds on our efforts to combat fraud and abuse. These efforts are saving billions of dollars in money that was being stolen from people with Medicare. And thanks to these efforts and other improvements, the life of the Medicare Trust fund has been extended.
  5. Your Medicare coverage is protected. Under the new health care law, your existing Medicare-covered benefits won’t be reduced or taken away. As always, you will be able to choose your own doctors.
Visit http://www.healthcare.gov/seniors to learn more.
Take a minute to hear Helen's story. She is a senior from Philadelphia who says thathealth care reform has given her peace of mind
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You can also access a print-ready, one pager (PDF- 11 MB) with these points, and there is a brochure available with more details about the preventive services (PDF - 1.22 MB).
Chris Stenrud is the HHS Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs

Politifact Florida: In expressing his strong opposition to the Affordable Care Act, Scott also got his facts wrong. He gave a one-sided and misleading account of how much the Medicaid expansion would cost the state, badly misrepresented requirements on small businesses and used a widely debunked talking point about "rationing"



Fact-checking Rick Scott on the health care law

By Angie Drobnic HolanKatie SandersAaron Sharockman
Published on Monday, July 2nd, 2012 at 8:34 p.m.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott opposes the federal health care law, and he wants the world to know it.

So he embarked on a media blitz over the weekend, appearing on Fox News, CNN and CNBC. At each stop, he announced that he had no intention of expanding Medicaid, a health insurance program for the very poor. He also said he wouldn’t allow the state to open health insurance "exchanges," places where consumers will comparison shop for health insurance.

But in expressing his strong opposition to the Affordable Care Act, Scott also got his facts wrong. He gave a one-sided and misleading account of how much the Medicaid expansion would cost the state, badly misrepresented requirements on small businesses and used a widely debunked talking point about "rationing."

Scott entered the political realm in 2009 by heading up Conservatives for Patients’ Rights, a group that attacked President Barack Obama’s health care proposals. PolitiFact Florida previously has fact-checked several inaccurate comments from Scott about the Affordable Care Act, including that it is not the "law of the land," that it will be the biggest job-killer ever and that it is the biggest tax increase in the history of the United States. (All were rated False.)

Scott actually fared worse on the Truth-O-Meter this time.

The Medicaid expansion

One of the reasons Scott announced that Florida would opt out of an expansion to Medicaid is that the expansion would cost the state an additional $1.9 billion a year.
  
He repeated the figure at least four times in national television interviews, and again in a press release.

Don’t believe it.
  
Scott’s Medicaid figure is an oversimplified estimate that relies on several assumptions and ignores how the Medicaid expansion would actually be implemented as part of the health care law. Even if you believe the assumptions and ignore how the law would be implemented, Scott is still quoting the wrong number, according to the most recent estimate created by his own Agency for Health Care Administration.

Medicaid is a joint state-federal, government-run health care program for the very poor. (Its cousin, Medicare, is for senior citizens of any income level.) Medicaid is an entirely voluntary program for the states -- but every state participates -- in part because of the good financial terms. The federal government covers about 55 percent of all Medicaid costs in Florida and covered about 68 percent in recent years with additional stimulus funding.

The health care law required states to expand eligibility to Medicaid by raising income eligibility limits to 133 percent of the federal poverty level. States currently have widely varying thresholds depending on a person’s age and situation, and Florida has some of the strictest thresholds in the country. For instance, childless adults cannot receive Medicaid in Florida, and parents who have children must make less than 22 percent of the federal poverty level to receive Medicaid.
  
The federal government agreed to fund 100 percent of the cost for states to expand Medicaid for three budget year. The federal government would cover 95 percent of the costs in 2017, 94 percent of the costs in 2018, 93 percent of the costs in 2019 and 90 percent of the costs in 2020 and beyond.

The expansion was technically voluntary, but the federal government said it would penalize any state (by withholding Medicaid funds) that failed to comply. That penalty was declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court.
  
The court’s ruling allows states like Florida to decline expansion without losing any current federal funding.

That brings us back to Scott.

The most recent estimate from the state health care agency -- from January 2012 -- says a series of changes to Medicaid could wind up costing about $1.4 billion a year, but that number includes several things beyond the expansion to Medicaid that Scott was talking about.

For instance, about $400 million is tied to increased reimbursement payments to Medicaid providers. But the state isn't required to pay that out as part of the health care law.

Another $516 million of the estimated $1.4 billion will pay for people who are eligible for Medicaid right now but not yet enrolled. Those people can enroll whether or not Scott gets Florida to opt out of the expansion.

In the end, that leaves about $500 million in estimated new costs for Medicaid patients under the federal government expansion.

And that cost -- which at least one health care advocacy group has questioned as "hyper-inflated" -- would not fully kick in until 2020.

So yes, the Medicaid expansion will cost the state.
  
But Scott’s $1.9 billion estimate appears to be wildly high. We rate his claim False.

A small business out of business?

Scott bungled more basic facts about how the law worked.

"I was in a business the other day, and they walked up to me and they said, ‘Governor, is this really going to become the law?’ " Scott told Fox News host Greta Van Susteren on Friday. " ‘Because if it does, we’re out of business. We have 20 employees. We know we won’t be able to buy any health care for anybody.’ "

Scott’s story was similar to one he told in Tampa earlier that day and at the Reagan Day Dinner of Pasco County Republicans that night. Scott told attendees at the dinner he was stopping in for a Blizzard at Dairy Queen when he was asked about the law.
  
A Tampa Bay Times reporter tracked down a Dairy Queen owner in Tallahassee who said he recently talked with Scott about how complying with the law would hurt his business.
  
The owner, Jamshaid Mohyuddin, 47, said he told the governor that he couldn’t afford to provide health insurance to his 16 employees.
  
"I'm a businessman myself, and I don’t even have health insurance," Mohyuddin said. "I can’t afford it."
  
Scott encouraged him to link up with other business owners to support Mitt Romney's campaign for president, Mohyuddin said.
  
Scott’s communications staff didn’t respond to our questions about the identity of the business owner. Really, though, it’s not so important for the purposes of this fact-check.
  
What’s important is this: They are mistaken. Businesses with fewer than 50 full-time employees are not required to offer coverage. (See sections 1513 and 4980H of the Affordable Care Act).
  
For larger companies, those with 50 or more full-time employees, there are fines if they do not offer insurance and one of their employees qualifies for government-subsidized insurance.
  
But again, small employers don’t face those fines. We rated Scott’s comments Pants on Fire.

While there are no penalties for small businesses like the one Scott described, the law offers tax creditsfor these employers if they decide to offer coverage.
  
Employers with fewer than 25 employees, whose average annual wages are below $50,000 and offer health insurance, qualify for a tax break of no more than 35 percent. That cap will be lifted to 50 percent in 2014.
  
The law also creates a health insurance exchange for small businesses, with the idea being they can comparison shop for plans.
  
Mohyuddin was elated when a reporter told him that the law exempts him from penalties for not offering health insurance.
  
"That helps me a lot," Mohyuddin said. "I always thought I had to do this."

"Rationing"

In several interviews, Scott repeated the claim that the health care law rations care. On Fox News on Monday, Scott said driving down the costs of health care should be left to the free market, and that expanding health insurance programs to the uninsured was a bad idea.

"Insurance is not the answer. (The answer is to) drive down the cost of health care. You have insurance in places like U.K. and Canada, where they say, oh we cover you. But you don’t get it, because it’s rationed. That’s what’s going to happen," Scott said.

Scott’s answer is problematic on several levels. For one thing, people in the United Kingdom and Canada might have to wait for appointments, but they do receive care.

More significantly, Scott implied that the types of systems in Canada and the United Kingdom are what’s going to happen under the current health care law. That’s not the case.

In Canada, the government pays the bills for health care for everyone. The closest comparison for this country would be if Medicare (the health insurance program for people over age 65) were extended to everyone. In the United Kingdom, the government runs the National Health Service, directly owning hospitals and employing doctors.

The health care law does neither of those two things. Instead, it leaves in place the current systems of Medicare, Medicaid and employer-provided insurance. It expands Medicaid coverage for the very poor, and offers credits to people of modest means to buy insurance on their own. To make those purchases easier, it creates health insurance exchanges, where plans have to meet minimum standards and explain their coverage in plain language.

Scott also said the law results in "rationing." Here’s the bottom line: The health care law rations care no more nor less than the current health care system does.

The current health care system  -- whether it’s private insurance, Medicare or Medicaid -- does not allow people to have all the health care they want. Under the new law, people still can’t have all the health care they want.

We rated Scott’s statement False.







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Politifact Florida Notes that Florida Governor Rick Scott, in expressing his strong opposition to the Affordable Care Act, also got his facts wrong. He gave a one-sided and misleading account of how much the Medicaid expansion would cost the state, badly misrepresented requirements on small businesses and used a widely debunked talking point about "rationing."

What Florida COULD have . . . below:

The Affordable Care Act: Immediate Benefits for Florida

  • Small business tax credits.  290,000 small businesses in Florida could be helped by a new small business tax credit that makes it easier for businesses to provide coverage to their workers and makes premiums more affordable.1  Small businesses pay, on average, 18 percent more than large businesses for the same coverage, and health insurance premiums have gone up three times faster than wages in the past 10 years.  This tax credit is just the first step towards bringing those costs down and making coverage affordable for small businesses.
  • Closing the Medicare Part D donut hole. Last year, roughly 271,000 Medicare beneficiaries in Florida hit the donut hole, or gap in Medicare Part D drug coverage, and received no extra help to defray the cost of their prescription drugs.2 Medicare beneficiaries in Florida who hit the gap this year will automatically be mailed a one-time $250 rebate check. These checks will begin to be mailed to beneficiaries in mid-June and will be mailed monthly throughout the year as new beneficiaries hit the donut hole. The new law continues to provide additional discounts for seniors on Medicare in the years ahead and completely closes the donut hole by 2020. 
  • Support for health coverage for early retirees. An estimated 280,000 people from Florida retired before they were eligible for Medicare and have health coverage through their former employers. Unfortunately, the number of firms that provide health coverage to their retirees has decreased over time.3  Beginning June 1, 2010, a $5 billion temporary early retiree reinsurance program will help stabilize early retiree coverage and help ensure that firms continue to provide health coverage to their early retirees. Companies, unions, and state and local governments are eligible for these benefits.
  • New consumer protections in the insurance market beginning on or after September 23, 2010.
    • Insurance companies will no longer be able to place lifetime limits on the coverage they provide, ensuring that the 8.8 million Florida residents with private insurance coverage never have to worry about their coverage running out and facing catastrophic out-of-pocket costs.
    • Insurance companies will be banned from dropping people from coverage when they get sick, protecting the 1.1 million individuals who purchase insurance in the individual market from dishonest insurance practices.
    • Insurance companies will not be able to exclude children from coverage because of a pre-existing condition, giving parents across Florida peace of mind.
    • Insurance plans’ use of annual limits will be tightly regulated to ensure access to needed care.  This will protect the 7.7 million residents of Florida with health insurance from their employer, along with anyone who signs up with a new insurance plan in Florida.
    • Health insurers offering new plans will have to develop an appeals process to make it easy for enrollees to dispute the denial of a medical claim.
    • Patients’ choice of doctors will be protected by allowing plan members in new plans to pick any participating primary care provider, prohibiting insurers from requiring prior authorization before a woman sees an ob-gyn, and ensuring access to emergency care.
  • Extending coverage to young adults. Beginning on or after September 23, 2010, plans and issuers that offer coverage to children on their parents’ policy must allow children to remain on their parents’ policy until they turn 26, unless the adult child has another offer of job-based coverage in some cases. This provision will bring relief to roughly 86,300 individuals in Florida who could now have quality affordable coverage through their parents.4  Some employers and the vast majority of insurers have agreed to cover adult children immediately.
  • Affordable insurance for uninsured with pre-existing conditions. $351 million federal dollars are available to Florida starting July 1 to provide coverage for uninsured residents with pre-existing medical conditions through a new transitional high-risk pool program, funded entirely by the Federal government. The program is a bridge to 2014 when Americans will have access to affordable coverage options in the new health insurance exchanges and insurance companies will be prohibited from denying coverage to Americans with pre-existing conditions. If states choose not to run the program, the Federal government will administer the program for those residents.
  • Strengthening community health centers. Beginning October 1, 2010, increased funding for Community Health Centers will help nearly double the number of patients seen by the centers over the next five years. The funding could not only help the 372 Community Health Centers in Florida but also support the construction of new centers.
  • More doctors where people need them. Beginning October 1, 2010, the Act will provide funding for the National Health Service Corps ($1.5 billion over five years) for scholarships and loan repayments for doctors, nurses and other health care providers who work in areas with a shortage of health professionals. This will help the 15% of Florida’s population who live in an underserved area.
  • New Medicaid options for states. For the first time, Florida has the option of Federal Medicaid funding for coverage for all low-income populations, irrespective of age, disability, or family status. 

2 Office of the Actuary. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Number represents only non-LIS seniors.
3 Kaiser Family Foundation. 2009 Employer Health Benefits Survey.
4 U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey. Annual Social and Economic Supplements, March 2009; and 45 CFR Parts 144, 146, and 147.http://www.hhs.gov/ociio/regulations/pra_omnibus_final.pdf



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