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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. So it could be dyspnea.

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States Build Capacity to Address Maternal Mortality through Policy Innovations

NASHP

from maternal-related causes , with more than 80 percent of these deaths being preventable. HFS has named maternal and child health as one of its five quality strategy pillars and requires its Medicaid MCOs to report results by race, ethnicity, and geography. Over 800 women die each year in the U.S.

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First Do No Harm

Briggs Healthcare

A recent study found that when a patient is admitted to the hospital, harm occurs nearly 24 percent of the time. Another report revealed that nearly 1 in 4 Medicare patients have experienced harm in the hospital. What’s worse, a considerable portion of this is preventable.

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Expanding the Perinatal Workforce through Medicaid Coverage of Doula and Midwifery Services

NASHP

Monitor and evaluate quality improvement and outcomes and address barriers to care. The project is supported by the Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant, the Title V Maternal and Child Health Block Grant, and the Mid-Iowa Health Foundation. Determine structure of benefit. Implement Medicaid benefit.

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

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31 Telehealth Michigan Michigan’s Children’s Special Health Care Services Division collaborates with key statewide partners to lead the Michigan Pediatric Epilepsy Project , an initiative to improve health outcomes for children and youth with epilepsy, particularly those in rural and underserved communities. Medicaid.gov.

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Behavioral Health System Modernization along the Continuum

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The commission was created in the New Hampshire Legislature in 2000 (NH RSA Chapter 12-J), which established the Alcohol Fund, directing a part of proceed from sales of alcohol to prevention, harm reduction treatment, and recovery services. It is operational across 231 hospitals and medical practice sites in the U.S.

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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.