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HEDIS® Public Comment Period Is Now Open

NCQA

HEDIS measures do not constitute clinical practice guidelines, and should not be used to determine insurance or coverage. Health plans have an important role in providing services to prevent adverse outcomes and ensure proper care coordination during the post-surgical period. ET) on March 13. Visit [link] to submit comments.

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AI-Powered Pop Health and SDOH – The Good, The Bad and The Best Practices

HIT Consultant

Code is written by humans who have unconscious biases, and those biases can creep into the algorithms of AI when Quality Assurance functions are not properly sensitized to detect them. SDOH for this group is both a contributing factor to disease and an obstacle to effectively closing gaps in treatment and prevention. .

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Sustainability and Value: State Palliative Care Reimbursement Strategies

NASHP

States that use existing billing codes may want to provide guidance to providers and explain how to use these codes to better track uptake of these services and support best clinical practices. California provided an example of billing codes associated with specified palliative care services in its December 2017 guidance.