Helping Medicare Keep Pace With Medical Technology

PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly): innovative care for the frail elderly. Comprehensive services enable most participants to remain at home.

PACE--the Program of All Inclusive Care for the Elderly--provides integrated comprehensive healthcare services to the frail elderly on a capitated basis. Begun in the early 1970s in San Francisco's Chinatown, PACE today comprises many individual programs across the nation. PACE's goal is to provide participants with the healthcare services they need for the highest possible level of functioning...

Measuring preventable harm: helping science keep pace with policy.

Biomedical Decision.makfng: Will Hospital Libraries Keep pace with the Information Age? Part 1

Last July I was invited to discuss the hospital library’s role in providing quality health care. My host was the Medical, Health and Welfare Libraries Group of the UK Library Association, which held its annual conference in Coventry. Subsequently, my talk was publiihed in Hea[th Libmnes Review.1 Although I have never worked in a hospital library, my invitation to speak was connected with an ear...

Medical care cost of Medicare/Medicaid beneficiaries with vision loss.

PURPOSE To assess the impact of vision loss on healthcare cost for patients with Medicaid and Medicare and whether these costs are adequately captured by Medicare hierarchical condition categories (HCC) risk adjustment methodology. DATA SOURCES The public use data set of the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) for 1994-1998, and the Medicare 5% Sample datasets for 2003 and 20...

PACE and its future in the new landscape.

he roots of PACE (the Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly) stretch back several decades. In the early 1970s, clinicians and administrators at On Lok, a community organization deeply rooted in San Francisco’s ChineseAmerican community, recognized the limitations of a system of senior care built around Medicare’s and Medicaid’s traditional approach of reimbursing providers for an approv...