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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. Nurses, home health aides, therapists — even schedulers.

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First Do No Harm

Briggs Healthcare

Ensuring patient safety is at the heart of the Hippocratic Oath: First, Do No Harm. As the nation’s largest payer for health care, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) mission in our National Quality Strategy includes ensuring everyone is safe when they receive care. The authors are Lee Fleisher, MD.,

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Changing Your Healthcare Mindset with Rhone D’Errico | E. 63

Vie Healthcare

Rhone shares the benefits of LinkedIn as a mindset platform, the skills unique to Nursing Practitioners and how students in search of preceptorships can benefit by taking the ‘’cookie basket to the clinic’’. He also explains why telepsychiatry provides patients a safe space and extols the power of servant leadership.

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Behavioral Health System Modernization along the Continuum

NASHP

The Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) pairs registered nurses with low-income first-time mothers during pregnancy and continues with regular home visits until the child’s second birthday. State Medicaid authorities can use the Healthy Steps Return on Investment tools to examine the program’s impact on the state budget and outcomes.