Florida Hospital
Research Activities, September 2000: HIV/AIDS Research: Florida's Medicaid AIDS waiver program improves patients' health and reduces costs, especially for hospital care
More than half of the people living with AIDS use health care services provided by State Medicaid health insurance programs for the poor. Because of their condition, people with AIDS are at increased risk of hospitalization or nursing home placement. During the 1990s, several Medicaid programs initiated waivers for home and community-based services for people with AIDS in an attempt to reduce hospital costs. ... Besides traditional Medicaid services, people with waivers are eligible to receive 15 other services such as case management, personal care services, and home-delivered meals. A recent study of Florida's Medicaid AIDS waiver program, Project AIDS Care, from 1993-1997 found that adult AIDS patients who did not participate in the waiver program had significantly higher hospital costs than program participants, after controlling for age and ethnicity. ... [Read More]
CBER Human Cell, Tissues and Cellular and Tissue-Based Products (HCT/P)
2nd Act Medical, Inc. dba Act 2 Medical 29729 Mulholland Hwy. Agoura, California, 91301 A. David Tyre & Associate, Inc 7901 Strickland Rd Suite 109 Raleigh, North Carolina, 27615 Advanced Fertility & Reproductive Endocrinology Institute, LLC 2728 Sunset Blvd, Suite 305 West Columbia, South Carolina, 29169 AFS PC 2700 Highway 280 Suite 370 East Birmingham, Alabama, 35223 ART Program of Alabama 2006 Brookwood Med Ctr Dr Suite 508 Birmingham, Alabama, 35209 ART Reproductive Center 450 North Roxbury Drive Suite 520 Beverly Hills, California, 90210 AZ Oncology Associates dba United Blood Services 2625 N. Craycroft Road Suite 221 Tuscon, Arizona, 85712 AZ Sint-Jan AV - Bloedtransfusiedienst en Weefselbank Ruddershove 10 Belgium Abington Memorial Hospital Toll Center for Reproductive Sciences 1200 Old York Road 2nd Floor Arches Abington, Pennsylvania, 19001 Access Orthopedics, Inc. 346 Rheem Blvd. Suite 109 Moraga, California, 94556 Addison Medical 3845 NW 90th Avenue Polk City, Iowa, 50226 A ... [Read More]
HRSA - HHS Honors Hospitals That Raised Organ Donation Rates in 2004
Executives of the hospitals, together with their partners in 49 organ procurement organizations (OPOs), were given the department's first annual Medals of Honor for Organ Donation by Elizabeth M. Duke, Ph.D., administrator of HHS' Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), during a ceremony today in Pittsburgh. Hospitals and OPOs were cited for raising their donation rate to 75 percent of eligible donors. By contrast, the national average donation rate in all hospitals was 55 percent last year. ... [Read More]
OAT - Grantees Directory - Florida
Network Partners: St. Anthony's Health Care - St. Anthony's Hospital (Pinellas County) Morton Plant Mease Heath Care - Morton Plant Hospital, Mease Dunedin Hospital, Mease Countryside Hospital, North Bay Hospital (Pinellas, Pasco, and Hernando Counties) St. Joseph's-Baptist Health Care - St. Joseph's Hospital, St. Joseph's Women's Hospital Tampa Children's Hospital, South Florida Baptist Hospital (Tampa Bay Area) ... [Read More]
HHS-OIG-Corporate Integrity Agreements
CATHOLIC HEALTHCARE WEST; MERCY HEALTHCARE SACRAMENTO; MERCY SAN JUAN HOSPITAL; MERCY GENERAL HOSPITAL; MERCY AMERICAN RIVER HOSPITAL; WOODLAND MEMORIAL HOSPITAL; METHODIST HOSPITAL OF SACRAMENTO; MERCY HOSPITAL OF FOLSOM; WOODLAND HEALTHCARE; WOODLAND CLINIC MEDICAL GROUP; AND MEDCLINIC ... [Read More]
Morton Plant Hospital
Morton Plant Hospital CCOE serves as a model resource center to integrate and coordinate available community social and health care services to improve women's access to comprehensive care. It focuses on the needs of underserved women in Pinellas County, Florida, home to an unusually large population of elderly women. This hospital-based CCOE program is located in the Turley Family Health Center, about three miles from the Morton Plant Hospital in Clearwater. In collaboration with their community partners, the center is creating an efficient network of supportive and holistic health care. ... [Read More]
#159: 03-17-03 FLORIDA HOSPITAL PAYS MORE THAN $1.4 MILLION TO SETTLE HEALTH-CARE FRAUD ALLEGATIONS
Under Medicare, hospitals are reimbursed through the DRG (Diagnostic Related Groups) coding system in which hospitals assign diagnosis codes for each patient discharge and those codes determine the DRG to which a patient discharge is assigned. The government's reimbursement is then based on the assigned DRG. In this case, Leesburg was able to increase its reimbursements when it assigned a false, higher reimbursing pneumonia diagnosis code, rather than the correct, lower reimbursing diagnosis code. ... [Read More]
HHS/OIG-Audit-"Review of Medicare Bad Debts For Florida Hospital For The Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 1999"(A-04-02-02011)
The final report points out that of the $1,154,650 in inpatient Medicare bad debts claimed by the hospital for its fiscal year ended December 31, 1999, $131,698 did not comply with the Medicare reimbursement criteria and was therefore unallowable. In addition, the hospital understated by $93,798 the amount of recoveries of previously written off bad debts that should be offset against the bad debts claimed on the cost report, and also understated recoveries in the three fiscal years prior to our audit period by a combined total of $558,807. We recommended that the hospital file an amended cost report for FY 1999 to reduce allowable bad debts. We also recommended that the hospital establish clear written policies to ensure that Medicare and non-Medicare accounts will be treated consistently and that reasonable collection efforts will be used, in accordance with the Medicare guidelines. In addition, we recommended that the hospital establish procedures for identif ... [Read More]
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