Home Health Care

JANUARY 9, 2023

She shares some best practices for building a wound care management program in today’s operating environment, and she also discusses the key ways in which providers can cut costs without sacrificing quality of care. Home Health Care News: What career experiences do you most draw from, in your role today?

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Etactics

DECEMBER 1, 2023

However, Medicare and other insurance cover a variety of different services and supplies, some of which aren’t identified by CPT codes. These codes assist healthcare workers in reporting different medical procedures and services to health insurance programs, such as Medicare and Medicaid. This is why we have HCPCS codes. Anesthesia.

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Medicare Medicaid Medical Services Prevention 52

NASHP

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

One of these contributors, hospital consolidation, has played an outsized role in making health care less affordable for consumers and employers. The model also gives a state’s insurance commissioner or attorney general the ability to add other clauses through regulation that may result in anticompetitive effects.

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NASHP

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Arizona’s End of Life and Advanced Care Planning benefit is referenced in its MCO contracts and further described in state regulations. In Rhode Island, MCO plans of care must include “interventions to address special needs (e.g., Enhance federal advance care planning requirements. Quality and performance measures.

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NASHP

OCTOBER 20, 2022

High-quality, integrated care requires strong system-level partnerships, information and data sharing, and family-centered practices. In spite of these barriers, and to help address them, states have implemented innovations to improve integrated care coordination for CYSHCN. Leveraging Data and Technology.

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NASHP

DECEMBER 23, 2022

With more than 40 percent of births financed by Medicaid, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has developed an action plan that corresponds with goals outlined in the White House blueprint. The licensure and certification of midwives is administered by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation.

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Medicaid Nursing Regulations Hospitals 58

Healthcare It News

MARCH 18, 2022

In fact, digital health companies only account for less than $10 billion of that $4 trillion in spending. Not only is this population difficult to manage for the existing care system, it is even harder for startup entrants. In the coming years, I expect to see many more companies working to solve this problem.

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Briggs Healthcare

AUGUST 22, 2022

In February 2022, President Biden announced a comprehensive set of reforms to improve the safety and quality of nursing home care, hold nursing homes accountable for the care they provide, and make the quality of care and facility ownership more transparent so that potential residents and their loved ones can make informed care choices. [1]

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Sheppard Health Law

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

On February 15, 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a proposed rule that would require nursing homes enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid to disclose new information about their ownership and management structures. Finally, CMS proposed a number of other definitions (e.g.,

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Nursing Medicaid Medicare Regulations 52

Briggs Healthcare

AUGUST 29, 2023

This comprehensive report (478 pages) summarizes results from the Nursing Home Staffing Study activities between May and December of 2022 and presents options for minimum nurse staffing requirements for consideration by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The relationship of staffing with quality and safety varies by staff type.

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Nursing Medicaid Medicare Accountability 52

NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

North Carolina’s comprehensive behavioral health approach included efforts to increase uptake of CoCM through additional training and practice supports and Medicaid rate increases to 120% of Medicare rates for behavioral health providers. An action plan dashboard tracks targets. CMS’s Birth to 5: Watch Me Thrive!

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Medicaid Integration Primary Care Nursing 52

Sheppard Health Law

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

On November 6, 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released the contract year 2025 proposed rule for Medicare Advantage (“MA”) organizations and Part D sponsors (the “Proposed Rule”). Please refer to our January 5, 2023 , November 4, 2022 and May 16, 2022 blog posts for more information.

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Medicare Medicaid Regulations Integration 59

Briggs Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Today, in another effort to improve nursing home transparency, safety and quality, and accountability, the U.S. President Biden has made clear that we must improve the quality of care in our nation’s nursing homes – and we are taking unprecedented steps to deliver on his call to action,” said HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra.

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Nursing Medicare Quality of Care Regulations 40

Briggs Healthcare

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

These actions continue to build on the Biden-Harris Administration’s unwavering commitment to improving the safety and quality of care in the nation’s nursing homes and President Biden’s historic Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy.

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Nursing Quality of Care Accountability Medicare 40

KHN

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Private equity-backed groups have even set up special “obstetric emergency departments” at some hospitals, which can charge expectant mothers hundreds of dollars extra for routine perinatal care. At least 300 of the comments were from doctors or other health care workers.

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KHN

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Private equity-backed groups have even set up special “obstetric emergency departments” at some hospitals, which can charge expectant mothers hundreds of dollars extra for routine perinatal care. At least 300 of the comments were from doctors or other health care workers.

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