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With QAPIs, Home Health Providers Should Opt For Tailored Approaches

Home Health Care

Curating a specific plan based on a home health provider’s needs, deficiencies and vulnerabilities is key to having successful Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) programs. Broadly, QAPI refers to any kind of auditing or quality metric standards a home health agency hopes to abide by.

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BREAKING NEWS: Update to COVID-19 Emergency Declaration Blanket Waivers for Specific Providers

Briggs Healthcare

e)(4) CMS waived the requirement that prevents a physician from delegating a task when the regulations specify that the physician must perform it personally. Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) – 42 CFR §483.75(b)–(d) Physician Delegation of Tasks in SNFs – 42 CFR §483.30(e)(4)

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State Policy Considerations to Support Equitable Systems of Care for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs 

NASHP

Data Collection, Sharing, Use, and Quality Assurance The availability of robust, adequate, and equitable data is crucial for states to identify and address health disparities or barriers that result in limited or reduced access to high-quality and coordinated care for CYSHCN and their families.

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HHS Renews Public Health Emergency, Keeping Key Home Health Waivers in Place

Home Health Care

Under the PHE, federal regulators have waived or modified normal requirements for Medicare and Medicaid providers, plus private health insurers. Hospice and home health agencies alike have also been allowed to pause Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) programs during the PHE.