Home Health Care

AUGUST 4, 2023

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. Here is a look at three steps providers can take to improve their QAPI approach, fix their VBP scores and boost their Medicare payments. But how will they do it?

Medicare 91

Medicare Performance improvement Quality Assurance Quality Improvement 91

Readiness Rounds

OCTOBER 3, 2023

This approach helps reduce findings, improves patient safety, and supports sustainable performance improvement. The Tightening of CMS Regulations Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) regulations have evolved over the years. Headlines: 1. The Tightening Grip of CMS Regulations 2. Key Takeaways 5.

Regulations 52

Regulations Performance improvement Patient Safety Hospitals 52

Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 20, 2023

and Jonathan Blum, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services – names you may recognize from CMS National Stakeholder Calls. Ensuring patient safety is at the heart of the Hippocratic Oath: First, Do No Harm. Protecting patients must always remain our first priority. The authors are Lee Fleisher, MD.,

Patient Safety 40

Patient Safety Medicaid Medicare Quality of Care 40

Home Health Care

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Longo : There are nearly 11,000 home health agencies that report data to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. I’d like to point out that accreditation is regarded as a well-established mechanism for promoting quality and patient safety in health care. The data are publicly available and include the CMS star ratings.

Patient Safety 83

Patient Safety Performance improvement Quality Improvement Accountability 83

NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

North Carolina’s comprehensive behavioral health approach included efforts to increase uptake of CoCM through additional training and practice supports and Medicaid rate increases to 120% of Medicare rates for behavioral health providers. An action plan dashboard tracks targets. CMS’s Birth to 5: Watch Me Thrive!

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Medicaid Integration Primary Care Nursing 52