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CMS Action to Expand Access to Emergency Care Services in Rural Communities  

Briggs Healthcare

Upcoming rulemaking in the calendar year (CY) 2023 Outpatient Prospective Payment System-Ambulatory Surgical Center (OPPS/ASC) proposed rule is anticipated to include discussion of policies regarding Medicare payment, quality reporting, and enrollment. Critical Access Hospitals.

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First Do No Harm

Briggs Healthcare

and Jonathan Blum, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services – names you may recognize from CMS National Stakeholder Calls. As the nation’s largest payer for health care, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) mission in our National Quality Strategy includes ensuring everyone is safe when they receive care.

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MIPS Reporting in 2023: Having More Options but Challenging

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Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) finalize that most of the proposed changes occur in the proposed rule last July. Many providers will have to do this to find specialty measurements or work on performance improvement in their measures to reach the required level and avoid a penalty. MIPS 2023 and The Changes .

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Healthcare Analytics | Ep.24

Vie Healthcare

Utilization analytics is absolutely key, is a doctor doing something differently? Wait a minute, why is that doctor adding another biological or, or why that’s interesting? And part of the strategy is, now is, is performance improvement, margin improvement. Like you said, Lisa, right? Specific trends.

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How Tech Transforms Echo & Medical Devices with Clifford Thornton | E. 82

Vie Healthcare

The cost of treating cardiovascular disease: ‘’…shortly after Medicare was instituted, cardiovascular spending in the United States jumped to around 100 billion a year within 10 years. But in his obituaries, they called him the old school doctor. So they have to adhere to these nurse to patient ratios in all New York ICUs now.

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Sustainability and Value: State Palliative Care Reimbursement Strategies

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Debbie, a grandparent with multiple myeloma, worked with a doctor with palliative care expertise and a palliative care team to address pain and stress – and is now back at work at a job she loves. advance care screening) were performed. Read the full patient stories on the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) website.

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Recognizing the Role of Caregiver with Melissa Fisher | E. 79

Vie Healthcare

Episode Introduction Melissa shares the four challenges faced by caregivers today, calls on doctors to recognize family and patients as a ‘’unit’’, and highlights the ‘’unpaid, untrained, overwhelmed, burned-out’’ reality of caregiving. Melissa explained the difference when a doctor finally included her in decision-making. ‘’I