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Cultivating an Early Warning System in Healthcare Quality Through Bi-Directional Patient-Physician Engagement 

HIT Consultant

Current barriers to patient access and quality improvement. This is especially true for underserved populations, who already face more financial, educational, and environmental barriers to quality care. Advancing care quality initiatives through bi-directional data collection.

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Back to the Future: 2023 Payment Rule Would Revert Nondiscrimination and Guaranteed Availability Provisions to Pre-Trump Forms, Returns Standardized Plan Options

Sheppard Health Law

First, issuers may only count provider incentive and bonus payments as claims expense if they are “tied to clearly defined, objectively measurable, and well-documented clinical or quality improvement standards.” Second, issuers only may count expenditures directly related to activities that improve healthcare quality.