NASHP

AUGUST 7, 2023

As states continue to make decisions on where to allocate funding awarded through ongoing opioid-related lawsuits, maximizing the impact of this funding will require strategies to ensure that resources are directed toward programs and practices demonstrated to be effective in abating the harms of the opioid crisis.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 17, 2023

Thousands of times a day, at health systems throughout the US, workers manually search for patient medical charts, print them out on paper, or save them to a file—and then fax, mail, or email them to a payer or third party who has requested it. On average, it takes about three weeks for a requested chart to be delivered.

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Sheppard Health Law

MAY 16, 2022

In December 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) approved the California Department of Health Care Services’ (DHCS’) request for a five-year extension of its Medicaid section 1115 demonstration and a five-year extension of its Medicaid managed care section 1915(b) waiver.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

In fact, when we looked at that data, what we found was that 40% of people treated in the Mount Sinai CMMI demonstration lived in New York City public housing,” he said. “We Chin also pointed out that some states have requested more information and published data regarding hospital at home. “We

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Cloud Blogs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

We will demonstrate how our solutions can help you address those challenges through engaging sessions, thought leadership, partner collaborations, and customer meetings. See a live demonstration of DAX Express and experience clinical documentation that writes itself. Only 5 percent of Americans participate in a clinical trial.

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Healthcare Life Sciences Patient Experience Healthcare Providers 87

KHN

DECEMBER 22, 2023

A Tennessee dentist who has been sued by multiple TMJ and sleep apnea patients over an unproven dental device he invented has said under oath that he never taught dentists to use the device for those ailments — contradicting video footage of him telling dentists how to use it. Related Articles This Dental Device Was Sold to Fix Patients’ Jaws.

Patient Safety 118

Patient Safety 118

Bill Of Health

MARCH 22, 2022

The current framing of disability as inability — whether an inability to be employed or otherwise — has utterly failed not only people with disabilities, but also the communities in which they live. By Brooke Ellison. Disability as a proxy for unproductivity. For centuries since then, the image of disability in the U.S.

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KHN

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Living with diabetes, Carlton “PeeWee” Gautney Jr. relied on a digital device about the size of a deck of playing cards to pump insulin into his bloodstream. Gautney, a motorcycle enthusiast, worked as a dispatcher with the police department in Opp, Alabama. “A big part of me is missing.”

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Regulations Patient Safety Doctors Accountability 144

GoMoHealth

JANUARY 6, 2023

We look forward to the program’s continued, positive impact in our communities to help ensure our members can live happy, healthy, and fulfilled lives.”. Amerigroup Georgia and GoMo Health created a two-pronged engagement program focused on early diagnosis and intervention. Both programs have a 99% retention rate. About GoMo Health: .

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

We’re a resource for professionals, for families and for organizations when it comes to someone in the mix showing signs of dementia or brain changes that are impacting their ability to live independently, alone and how they’ve always lived. OTs are well-known for activities of daily living or function.

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Home Care 93

Sheppard Health Law

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

As individuals continue to live longer beyond retirement and the U.S. 7] PACE is a Medicare and Medicaid program that helps elderly individuals meet their healthcare needs, including LTSS needs, from the comfort of their home or community, rather than relocating to a nursing home, assisted living facility or other care facility.

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Medicaid Medicare Accountability Nursing 52

NASHP

APRIL 17, 2023

Collectively, these approaches build capacity for intervening in early stages of crisis for people living in rural and frontier areas. Behavioral health crisis care consists of a range of interventions for people at risk for acute behavioral health issues, experiencing crisis, and engaged in recovery.

Medicaid 76

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NASHP

MARCH 14, 2022

States can play a key role in EHE efforts by strengthening public health prevention, monitoring infection data, and providing treatment infrastructure and services to individuals living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). As a result, Wisconsin hassupported its HIV peer workforce with ready access to mental health counseling services.

Prevention 52

Prevention Nursing Integration Healthcare 52

Bill Of Health

DECEMBER 22, 2021

First of all, market-based solutions do not work in the context of global pandemics as has been demonstrated in the COVID-19 pandemic that is currently ravaging the world. Moreover, we also need to consider how such a treaty might address potential conflicts with the Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 26, 2021

Overall, the Trinity Health network includes 94 hospitals and 109 continuing care locations that include PACE, senior living facilities, and home care and hospice services. HHVBP has been active in nine demonstration states since 2016. Based in Michigan, Trinity Health At Home is one of the largest home health providers in the country.

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Medicare Medicaid Home Care Hospitals 52

Etactics

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

If you googled the phrase “HIPAA Breach” and went to the news section, you would see a ton of stories of organizations declaring that they suffered one. Why would any organization disclose an issue with their compliance with HIPAA? Corporate overlords would say that disclosing something like that would have a massive, negative impact on revenue.

Regulations 52

Regulations Healthcare 52

Health Advances

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Lived experience is a powerful story telling tool that can aid women’s health companies in securing funding but is still lacking acceptance. While lived experience doesn’t necessarily equate to evidence in today’s pitches, it should. If adopted, this provides a plethora of data to analyze and potentially demonstrate effectiveness.

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Clinical Practice Population Health Medicaid Healthcare 52

NASHP

MAY 1, 2023

States use public and private funds to support home visiting programs, including state general revenue, Medicaid, Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and federal funding, such as the Maternal and Infant Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program. For questions or updates, please reach out to Anoosha Hasan at ahasan@nashp.org.

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Medical GPS

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

To the extent your practice can empower front-line support staff to accommodate same-day acute patient appointment requests, your practice will avoid the deadly sin of lack of acute access. As you read over these descriptions, check out the highlighted action words that reveal a common theme.

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Quality Improvement Urgent Care Patient Safety Healthcare 52

NASHP

OCTOBER 29, 2021

North Dakota’s 1915(i) program focuses on beneficiaries with behavioral health conditions, seeks to address priority social needs (including housing), and incorporates policies designed to meet the challenges of serving program members living in rural areas. State Medicaid agencies recognize that meeting beneficiaries’ social needs (e.g.,

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Medicaid Regulations Primary Care Accountability 97

Icanotes

MARCH 15, 2021

Expanding telehealth usage means people who live in areas that previously weren't well-served by behavioral health can now schedule visits with clinicians without leaving their homes. Whether you're a psychiatrist, clinical social worker, psychologist or counselor, a career in behavioral health can be challenging but rewarding.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 25, 2023

Technology has allowed us to build more conveniences into our daily lives, but the flip side is that those conveniences heighten the expectations of consumers. Ram Krishnan, CEO of Valant Improving patient experience is a primary concern for behavioral health providers today. With so much on the line, it’s important to get it right.

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NASHP

MAY 8, 2023

Some are carefully improving data collection processes, tools, and analytics to adequately collect and disaggregate data by demographic, socioeconomic, geographic, and other variables on a more granular level than before. This strategy creates transparency and opportunity for feedback and engagement in the quality improvement process.

Medicaid 52

Medicaid Quality Improvement Quality Assurance Hospitals 52

Icanotes

APRIL 26, 2024

Therapist Self-Care: Managing Transference and Countertransference in Patient Care and Treatment If you are a mental health professional, you understand just how nuanced the dynamics between yourself and your clients can be. Both can provide useful insights into the inner world of the patient and mental health professional.

Prevention 52

Prevention Private Practices Integration Clinical Practice 52

Home Health Care

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The blend of technology and health care, and the ability to impact the lives of seniors was interesting, and I was keen to be a part of the team. We are all about improving the lives of seniors and patients, and I felt a sense of urgency waiting on the sidelines. A big problem within acute care is alarm fatigue for nurses.

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Nursing Home Care Patient Safety Medicare 91

NASHP

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Yet, according to findings from an Administration for Community Living (ACL) Request for Information — which received more than 1,600 responses — “[…] to access supportive services directed at the caregiving population, family caregivers need to identify as such. This roadmap was made possible by support from The John A.

Medicaid 98

Medicaid Nursing Regulations Home Care 98

NASHP

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Yet, according to findings from an Administration for Community Living (ACL) Request for Information — which received more than 1,600 responses — “[…] to access supportive services directed at the caregiving population, family caregivers need to identify as such. This roadmap was made possible by support from The John A.

Medicaid 98

Medicaid Nursing Regulations Home Care 98

Icanotes

JANUARY 23, 2024

Understanding Complex Trauma: Approaches for Supporting Clients With Chronic Trauma and CPTSD Complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) is a complicated mental health disorder that is incredibly challenging to diagnose and treat. Complex trauma usually occurs during the survivor's childhood, though it can also affect adolescents and adults.

Regulations 52

Regulations Prevention 52

Susan E. Mazer, Ph.D

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Safety precautions are ever present in our daily lives. Ask family members to be your partner in keeping the patient safe; give them your pager number and access to request housekeeping to change linens, remove trays, and empty the trash. How can patients have good experiences if they do not feel safe? These seem obvious, right?

Patient Safety 52

Patient Safety Patient Experience Regulations Hospitals 52

GoMoHealth

MAY 23, 2023

All depressions paralyze the very part of the sufferer that is needed to heal. The apathy, lack of motivation, and sheer exhaustion require that someone—or something other than the person in the grip of the disease—take the first step toward healing.

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Nursing Hospitals Healthcare Providers Medicaid 71

HIT Consultant

MARCH 16, 2022

developer of an intelligent AED and connected response platform for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) emergencies, today announced that it closed a $22 million Series A round of financing co-led by Questa Capital, Catalyst Health Ventures and repeat investor Laerdal Million Lives Fund. Avive Raises $22M for Connected AED Platform.

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Integration Healthcare Nursing Biotechnology 98

Icanotes

OCTOBER 5, 2021

It also helps them develop goals for cultivating a life worth living and strengthening valuable interpersonal relationships. It also helps them develop goals for cultivating a life worth living and strengthening valuable interpersonal relationships. DBT leans on acceptance and balance, which pave the way for lifelong changes.

Regulations 52

Regulations Quality of Care Prevention Integration 52

NASHP

APRIL 24, 2023

Federal partners could intentionally align these grant programs with opportunities/guidance/demonstrations from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and other federal partners that have a goal of increasing the use of evidence-based interventions, such as the U.S.

Medicaid 52

Medicaid Integration Prevention Urgent Care 52

NASHP

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Georgia reimburses CHW services for limited population-use, through a section 1115 demonstration, implemented through Medicaid MCOs. CMS approved Georgia’s request for approval to expand postpartum coverage from 60-days to 6 months post birth in April 2021. integrating?CHWs Acronym Guide. ACO Accountable Care Organizations.

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Medicaid Primary Care Prevention Nursing 120

Cloud Blogs

JANUARY 27, 2021

Public health mitigation measures such as wearing masks, social distancing, avoiding large gatherings, and washing hands have demonstrated benefit in curbing the spread of infection, but have been implemented inconsistently and unevenly throughout the world, which has limited their effectiveness.

Healthcare Providers 105

Healthcare Providers Urgent Care Public Health services Hospitals 105

NASHP

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Introduction. Rising prices for health care services are a major determinant of increased health care spending and health insurance premiums. Hospital prices (for inpatient and outpatient care) are the largest driver of rising health care spending in the commercial market in the U.S.

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Hospitals Primary Care Regulations Accountability 112

NASHP

MAY 26, 2023

Introduction Abundant research — and often our own lived experience — points to the physical, mental, and emotional toll of caregiving. With caregivers increasingly asked to perform more intense and complex care , respite care is integral to giving caregivers a much-needed break.

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