Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 9, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Beginning Spring 2023, the Center of Excellence for Behavioral Health in Nursing Facilities (COE-NF) will provide training and resources to skilled nursing facility staff who care for residents with a variety of behavioral health conditions.

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Briggs Healthcare

JUNE 28, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Presenters recommended the use of solutions customized to specific groups, as well as engaging with patients and community organizations as key stakeholders when developing quality improvement models and strategies. Literature Link: Health Equity.

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Patient Safety

JUNE 17, 2021

But the rest of us must work a lot harder to effect such change, and one could argue that change is especially difficult in healthcare. Also in this issue: the Patient Safety Authority’s annual analysis of all patient safety events reported in 2020 —almost 300,000, excluding healthcare-associated infections.

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NASHP

AUGUST 15, 2022

Recently, Pennsylvania shared their work with managed care organizations (MCO)s to improve access to oral health care services through quality improvement projects, measures, and incentives. Medicaid Managed Care Dental Performance. Annual adult dental visit (with an additional subcategory for the maternity population).

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 20, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare CMS posted this blog on Thursday, March 16, 2023. These programs aim to prioritize value in health care delivery and, if a provider does not commit to improve and show results, they can face financial penalties. The authors are Lee Fleisher, MD.,

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NASHP

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The state is working with CHWs to integrate and expand oral health promotion outside of the healthcare setting. States use these measures to design oral health quality improvement initiatives including incentive payments and performance improvement projects in managed care programs.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Elissa Toder, MBA, VP of Quality Improvement Strategy & Solutions at Reveleer In the ongoing transition to value-based care (VBC), provider contracting poses challenges for health plans and providers. Initial negotiations often begin with the health plan’s template, aligned to their goals, but healthcare is diverse.

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Briggs Healthcare

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. While in the SFF program, CMS is encouraging facilities to make good-faith efforts (and provide evidence of these efforts) to improve quality and measurable changes, such as changes in staffing, leadership, or increased overall staffing.

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NASHP

AUGUST 23, 2021

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.

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NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

These updates offer more detailed data for improvement and regional variation tracking. SAMHSA’s National Guidelines for Behavioral Health Crisis Care Best Practice Toolkit addresses program design, development, implementation, and ongoing quality improvement.

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NCQA

APRIL 5, 2023

As we explain in our September 2021 Future of HEDIS webinar (at 45:30), democratizing digital measurement means making measurement work in at least six broad situations, or “use cases”: Performance measurement. “I Performance management. Quality improvement. How can we make the most of our improvement efforts?”

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