Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 31, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS has posted 20 Nursing homes including rehab services Datasets on March 31, 2022: COVID-19 Vaccination Rates – State and National Averages … State and National averages for facility resident and healthcare personnel COVID-19 vaccination rates.

Nursing 80

Nursing Measurable Quality Medicare Hospitals 80

Briggs Healthcare

JULY 29, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. This file contains national averages on quality measures implemented under the IMPACT Act. This file contains a list of the swing bed units participating in the SNF QRP, as well as their results on quality measures implemented under the IMPACT Act.

Nursing 81

Nursing Measurable Quality Medicare Hospitals 81

Healthcare ECONOMIST

AUGUST 17, 2021

For years, Medicare and other payers have used quality measures to evaluate the quality of care patients receive at various types of providers settings (e.g., For some payers, higher quality scores/higher star ratings lead to direct increases in reimbursement through a value-based purchasing arrangement.

Quality of Care 79

Quality of Care Measurable Quality Patient Experience Medicare 79

Briggs Healthcare

JUNE 28, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare This morning (Wednesday, June 28, 2023), CMS posted QSO-23-18-NH (3 pages) with the same title as this blog. CMS will publish the Nursing Home Affiliated Entity Performance Measures dataset on data.cms.com.

Nursing 52

Nursing Home Care Measurable Quality Medicare 52

Briggs Healthcare

JANUARY 27, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare If you love data and analyzing data, the last couple of days have been a goldmine for you! Because of COVID-19 reporting exceptions, the claims-based measures were calculated excluding Q1 and Q2 2020. January 2023: Data have been refreshed for January 2023.

Nursing 40

Nursing Measurable Quality Medicare Hospitals 40

Healthcare ECONOMIST

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

According to a 2022 CBO report , healthcare spending per person is much higher for commercially insured individuals than those insured by Medicare and this difference is largely drive by price differentials. However, there is a growing body of evidence that quality doesn’t improve with P4P systems.

Measurable Quality 90

Measurable Quality Telemedicine Medicare Hospitals 90

Healthcare ECONOMIST

AUGUST 9, 2022

Dauda, Dunn and Hall (2020) then proposes 4 methods to measure quality-adjusted prices: Utility-based cost-of-living index (COLI). This approach follows Cutler et al. 1998) and is the authors’ benchmark approach.

Measurable Quality 68

Measurable Quality Accountability Health Technology Medicare 68