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With QAPIs, Home Health Providers Should Opt For Tailored Approaches

Home Health Care

Curating a specific plan based on a home health provider’s needs, deficiencies and vulnerabilities is key to having successful Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) programs. That was the message from Tammy Stewart, clinical consultant with Healthcare Provider Solutions Inc.

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Value-Based Purchasing: Is Your Agency Ready?

Home Health Care

One specific area where agencies will need to adapt is tracking and improving quality measures, starting with both the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) and the Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) improvement scores.

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Reimagining our Approach to the Mental Health Crisis with Dr. Helen Egger | E. 85

Vie Healthcare

Helen explains Little Otter’s approach to mental healthcare for children, why mental health treatment hasn’t improved in ten years, and why it’s hard being a parent in America. What To Do Next: Subscribe to The Economics of Healthcare and receive a special report on 15 Effective Cost Savings Strategies. And the answer is yes.

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

NASHP

Perhaps the most important is to identify specific goals and objectives early on to guide the details of design, such as the choice of quality metrics for incentive payments. In addition, it is important to build in measurement at the start and to think of state efforts as iterative — moving to tackle new priorities as performance improves.