Section 3026 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act provides for a five-year demonstration project called the Community-based Care Transitions Program. Funded by $500 million in federal ...

CMS has selected 17 sites to participate in the Community-based Care Transitions Program, a five-year program created under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to test models for improving ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently announced 20 new organizations participating in the Community-based Care Transitions Program (CCTP), which is an initiative to cut down on ...

With Medicare spending an estimated $12 billion on avoidable readmissions, according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, two new programs are being introduced to help curb these costly, ...

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - A local organization is making it a little easier for older adults to transition home after a hospital stay. MemoryLane Care Services teamed up with the Area Office on Aging to ...

OSF HealthCare, a health system that serves Illinois and Michigan, had a big challenge: Managing the high rate of patient readmissions from hospitals to skilled nursing facilities and eventually to ...

The 90-year-old was hospitalized in early March with kidney failure and pneumonia. After spending nearly a week at Mercy Medical Center, Tadlock, who also suffers from congestive heart failure, was ...

The Siouxland Care Transitions Program, a partnership among Connections Area Agency on Aging, Mercy Medical Center, UnityPoint Health -- St. Luke's, Siouxland Community Health Center and the Winnebago ...