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Care coordination: What's needed to succeed with accountable care and home health?

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Care coordination is becoming increasingly important in U.S. healthcare for a variety of reasons, including the increased use of value-based care models, the behavioral care shortage and a boom in home healthcare. Medicare spends nearly $60 billion on post-acute care annually. That is changing.

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Why Becoming ACO Improves Your Quality Payment Reporting?

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ACO or Accountable Care Organization is a group of doctors, hospitals, medical centers, and other healthcare providers. This unit works together to care for and look after a patient’s health. Their main goal is to improve the quality of care for patients. Accountability. Option of Care Coordinator.

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Why Becoming ACO Improves Your Quality Payment Reporting?

p3care

ACO or Accountable Care Organization is a group of doctors, hospitals, medical centers, and other healthcare providers. This unit works together to care for and look after a patient’s health. Their main goal is to improve the quality of care for patients. Accountability. Option of Care Coordinator.

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Sustainability and Value: State Palliative Care Reimbursement Strategies

NASHP

State health reform efforts increasingly focus on providing comprehensive and well-coordinated care to people with serious illness to improve quality of care and drive down costs. T)he benefit will be made available in all care settings including the community, nursing facilities, and assisted living facilities.”

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National Care Coordination Standards for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN): Proceedings from the National Forum on Care Coordination for CYSHCN

NASHP

For example, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Innovation Center is currently supporting the Integrated Care for Kids (InCK) model across seven sites in six states. This model aims to improve quality of care for children, including CYSHCN, through integrated care delivery systems that include care coordination.[12].

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Primary Care Case Management in Medicaid: A Strategy for Supporting Primary Care in Rural Areas

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[ii] These shortages of primary care providers (PCPs), who serve as the entry point to medical care and often play a large role in coordinating patient care, create challenges for residents of rural areas, the PCPs who serve them, and the Medicaid agencies responsible for providing access to services for program participants throughout the state.