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How to Improve Your VBP Scores and Boost Medicare Payments

Home Health Care

Since CMS standardized it in 2018, Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement program, or QAPI, has served as a guiding light for home-based care providers. The program is the process by which a home-based care provider measures its quality metrics. This makes it a highly effective approach.

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PEPPER Training & Resources for Skilled Nursing Facilities

Briggs Healthcare

Because registration is limited to 1,000 sites, SNFs are encouraged to coordinate internally to prevent duplicate registrations and to allow as many SNFs as possible to participate. Register HERE. This program is being brought to you at no charge. Registrants will receive an email with information about how to join the session.

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BREAKING NEWS: Update to COVID-19 Emergency Declaration Blanket Waivers for Specific Providers

Briggs Healthcare

The termination of these blanket waivers will have no effect on other blanket waivers that remain in place such as those for hospitals and CAHs. Those blanket waivers remain in effect to assist hospitals and CAHs, among others, in dealing with their response to the surges of COVID-19 cases in the community.

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CMS Loosens Restrictions on Co-Located Healthcare Providers; Enforcement Interpretation Still to Be Determined

Sheppard Health Law

On November 12, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) revised and finalized draft guidance first issued on May 3, 2019, for co-location of hospitals with other hospitals or healthcare providers [1] (the “ Finalized Guidance ”). The Finalized Guidance also makes significant changes to the guidelines for staffing.

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State Policy Considerations to Support Equitable Systems of Care for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs 

NASHP

Data Collection, Sharing, Use, and Quality Assurance The availability of robust, adequate, and equitable data is crucial for states to identify and address health disparities or barriers that result in limited or reduced access to high-quality and coordinated care for CYSHCN and their families. Medicaid.gov.

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Sustainability and Value: State Palliative Care Reimbursement Strategies

NASHP

Reach out to state professional and hospital associations. After a hospitalization, a palliative care team worked with Matt to address his physical symptoms and side effects from medications, and helped him manage his stress and anxiety. advance care screening) were performed.

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

Vie Healthcare

50% of adult mental health disorders start before the age of 14, but we put most of our effort and our dollars into older children and into adults, and we’re not focusing on where we can make a difference with early intervention and prevention. Jim (24:13): I wanted to follow up, Helen, with this prevention.