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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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. CMS 416 preventative services. Fluoride varnish. Dental sealants.

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Patient Safety Movement

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Patients, children, and healthcare workers are killed and injured. We need to bring back the sanctity of healthcare facilities and our children and take them out of battle zones. Approximately 25% of patients experience an adverse event in US hospitals, with over 40% caused by preventable errors.

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Briggs Healthcare

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Today’s announcement is part of a series of new actions the Biden-Harris Administration is taking to increase accountability of bad actors in the nursing home industry, improve the quality of nursing homes and make them safer.

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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. What’s worse, a considerable portion of this is preventable. Prior to COVID-19, progress was being made to improve patient safety. The authors are Lee Fleisher, MD., Michelle Schreiber, MD.,

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NASHP

MAY 8, 2023

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Health : Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Source: Institute for Healthcare Improvement Public Health : The science of protecting and improving the health of people and their communities.

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NASHP

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Actions in the first 100 days of the Biden Administration include funding for the implementation of implicit bias training for healthcare providers, the creation of state pregnancy medical home programs, and the enhancement of Maternal Mortality Review Committees.

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Patient Safety Movement

APRIL 1, 2023

Save the Date: June 1-2, 2023 10th Annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit The 10-year anniversary marks professionals like you making a significant difference in eliminating preventable medical errors. Please visit psmf.org for more details. ” Dr.

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NASHP

JULY 24, 2023

Evidence suggests that vertical integration and growing consolidation in health care leads to higher hospital and provider prices and higher total spending — all while having little to no impact on improving quality of care for patients, reducing utilization, or improving efficiency.

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NASHP

JUNE 22, 2022

Comprehensive quality measurement of care coordination services is essential to evaluate and guide care coordination efforts, yet little agreement exists among stakeholders about how to best measure the provision and quality of care coordination services. [4] National Care Coordination Standards Domain.

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NASHP

AUGUST 31, 2023

While these essential commitments are a necessary pre-condition to sustain basic public health system capacity, specific priorities and strategies for better engaging healthcare system partners on shared public health priorities are outlined in the sections below.

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NASHP

OCTOBER 20, 2022

For example, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Innovation Center is currently supporting the Integrated Care for Kids (InCK) model across seven sites in six states. This model aims to improve quality of care for children, including CYSHCN, through integrated care delivery systems that include care coordination.[12].

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Sheppard Health Law

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The Innovation Center, established in 2010 as part of the Affordable Care Act, began as an initiative to transition the health system to value-based care by developing, testing and evaluating new payment and service delivery models in Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 31, 2022

As the relationship between healthcare providers and patients evolves, the healthcare industry is beginning to acknowledge and encourage patients as active partners in their care journey. The 21 st Century Cures Act is enabling patient-driven healthcare information exchange.

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NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

States such as Texas, Wyoming , and New Jersey are adopting Medicaid reimbursement of collaborative care services and are addressing capacity to transition to CoCM. States have taken a number of strategies to support the adoption of the CoCM through policy initiatives and reimbursement strategies. An action plan dashboard tracks targets.

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NASHP

AUGUST 23, 2021

[ii] These shortages of primary care providers (PCPs), who serve as the entry point to medical care and often play a large role in coordinating patient care, create challenges for residents of rural areas, the PCPs who serve them, and the Medicaid agencies responsible for providing access to services for program participants throughout the state.

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NASHP

JUNE 22, 2022

This section of the guide outlines considerations, examples, and resources for: Identifying stakeholders and establishing partnerships across care coordination and child-serving systems. Assessing care coordination system capacity, gaps, and process improvements. Financing care coordination systems. Academic institutions.

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Sheppard Health Law

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Improving Access to Behavioral Health Care Providers The Proposed Rule would expand MA network adequacy requirements to encompass outpatient behavioral health in order to improve access to behavioral health care providers.

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