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‘We Will Be Paying For This For Years’: 8 Home Health C-Suite Leaders Sound Off On ‘Alarming’ Medicare Cuts

Home Health Care

CMS’ proposal to increase oversight and regulation specific to home health and hospice M&A activity will likely have impacts on the M&A landscape in 2024 and beyond. That’s putting greater strain on hospital capacity by increasing readmission rates and average lengths of stay. Cleamon Moorer Jr.,

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Weighing Policy Trade-offs: Building State Capacity to Address Health Care Consolidation

NASHP

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. Will quality improve or be maintained?

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National Care Coordination Standards for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN): Proceedings from the National Forum on Care Coordination for CYSHCN

NASHP

High-quality, integrated care requires strong system-level partnerships, information and data sharing, and family-centered practices. Yet, states often face barriers to integrated care including a lack of trust across agencies, privacy regulations that may hinder data sharing, and misaligned eligibility, enrollment, and referral systems.

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CalAIM: Leveraging Medicaid Managed Care for Housing and Homelessness Supports

NASHP

Use crisis services, emergency rooms, urgent care, or inpatient stays as the sole source of care; Experienced two or more emergency room visits or two or more hospitalizations due to SMI or SUD in the past 12 months. Short-term post-hospitalization housing. Public hospital systems. Individuals Transitioning from Incarceration.

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Behavioral Health System Modernization along the Continuum

NASHP

It is operational across 231 hospitals and medical practice sites in the U.S. New York City’s Supportive Transition and Recovery Team (NYC START) program is a free suite of services using the Critical Time Intervention model offered to young adults between ages 16 and 30 who are hospitalized for a first-episode psychosis.

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State Strategies to Support OUD Treatment across the Criminal Legal System

NASHP

At the same time, hospital emergency departments have experienced a 37.2 Rhode Island hospital licensure regulations for SUD , OUD, and chronic addiction discharge planning (216-RICR-40-10-4.6.1(D) D)(1) of these regulations, or are treated for an opioid overdose. .): Community Services and Prevention (Intercept 0).

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Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare is transforming the healthcare journey

Cloud Blogs

W hether in-facility , or through at-home medical care , e xtending patient care beyond the hospital walls through continuous remote monitoring helps your organization reduc e re-admissions, and provide new modalities of care.