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Covera Health Secures Up to $50M to Revolutionize Radiology Nationwide

HIT Consultant

Their innovative approach focuses on improving radiology outcomes while reducing costs and unnecessary imaging tests. CoRead Acquisition The company also finalized the acquisition of CoRead, a leading AI quality assurance company currently being used by more than 2,000 hospital sites nationwide.

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Critical Access Hospital PEPPER Available Including Upcoming Q4FY22 CAH PEPPER Review Webinar

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The Q4FY22 release of the Critical Access Hospital (CAH) Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER) with statistics through September 2022 is now available for download through the PEPPER Resources Portal.

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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

To obtain your SNF PEPPER , the Chief Executive Officer, President, Administrator, Compliance Officer, Quality Assurance/Performance Improvement Officer, or other authorized user within your organization (selecting a job title closest to their title) should: 1. View a map of SNF PEPPER retrievals by state.

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On November 12, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) revised and finalized draft guidance first issued on May 3, 2019, for co-location of hospitals with other hospitals or healthcare providers [1] (the “ Finalized Guidance ”).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