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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. What we are doing today will affect the 2025 payment.”

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Letter From the Editor

Patient Safety

If I had one superpower it would be to influence patient safety in the same way that Elon Musk can influence cryptocurrency. I would tweet #patientsafety #bestpractices #implementthem and suddenly patient harm—all of it—would plummet within minutes. became Patient Safety’s first international authors.

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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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Voices: Beth Ann Longo, Associate Director, Department of Research, The Joint Commission

Home Health Care

I’d like to point out that accreditation is regarded as a well-established mechanism for promoting quality and patient safety in health care. A high star rating conveys to the public that the agency focuses on delivering high-quality care, ensuring patient safety, and addressing patient needs.

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

Vie Healthcare

We have accreditation programs that really work to make sure that that variance in quality is very narrow. We always work to have high quality graduates. And then within all the schools I’ve ever worked, there is strong quality improvement mindsets involved there.

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Behavioral Health System Modernization along the Continuum

NASHP

In addition to funding mobile response services, Connecticut has also established a Mobile Crisis Intervention Services Performance Improvement Center (PIC) to support the collection and analysis of data, implement quality improvement activities, and support providers to enhance their clinical competencies and delivery of MCIS.