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How Health Care Providers Can Ensure Patients’ End-of-Life Wishes Are Known

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Some health systems, such as the University of Michigan, have developed protocols that would alert providers with EMR advisories of incomplete ACPs so that they can give patients advance-directive packets to fill out at home or with the help of a social worker. Here are our recommendations. Build a national registry.

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5 Ways U.S. Hospitals Can Respond to Medicare’s Mounting Costs

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Hospitals’ Medicare Losses Dwarf Medicaid Losses,” hospitals have been losing nearly three times as much caring for Medicare patients as they have caring for their Medicaid patients, traditionally the worst paid-for insured-patient group. Use data analytics to develop a pathway to higher profitability. The losses of U.S.

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