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The YOU FIRST Approach to Quality Measurement

NCQA

In varied settings, including Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHC), behavioral health homes, home-based primary care practices, home and community-based services programs and serious illness programs. Testing shows PCO measures work! ANYONE INTERESTED IN PERSONALIZED CARE Contact our PCO team.

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Referrals, quality of care and the human connection

Healthcare ECONOMIST

As a health economist who likes to think about the world in a quantitative manner, I do whatever I can to measure quality in a numeric manner. Thus, if I was visiting a primary care physician (PCP) and needed some specialist care, I would want the PCP to refer me to the specialist with the best quality ratings.

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Seven Steps for Building a Community-Based Palliative Care Benefit Within Medicaid

NASHP

High-quality palliative care can both improve quality of life and avoid unnecessary and often unwanted treatments for Medicaid enrollees with serious illness. States can support palliative care in a number of ways and across a range of settings (e.g., in hospitals, embedded within enhanced primary care, via home health).

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2023 Highlights Illuminate 2024 Priorities

NCQA

The seven minutes it takes to read this post is time well spent if you want to glimpse where quality is headed. Improving Behavioral Health Care Inside Primary Care This post is a keeper because it unites two priorities that will pervade 2024: primary care and behavioral health.

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National Care Coordination Standards for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN) Implementation Guide

NASHP

On the other hand, a health plan may use the guide to implement a high-quality screening and assessment process through primary care providers. In Kansas , the Title V CYSHCN program leveraged the National Care Coordination Standards for CYSHCN to conduct an assessment of existing care coordination practices and needs.