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. The program is the process by which a home-based care provider measures its quality metrics. What we are doing today will affect the 2025 payment.”

Medicare 96

Medicare Performance improvement Quality Assurance Quality Improvement 96

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

How did you measure the quality of that data and quantify those values in a comparable and accessible way? Longo : There are nearly 11,000 home health agencies that report data to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The data are publicly available and include the CMS star ratings.

Patient Safety 90

Patient Safety Performance improvement Quality Improvement Accountability 90

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!

Medicaid 52

Medicaid Integration Primary Care Nursing 52