Home Health Care

JANUARY 27, 2023

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.

Quality Assurance 75

Quality Assurance Performance improvement Healthcare Providers Quality of Care 75

Home Health Care

AUGUST 4, 2023

Yet while home-based care providers certainly have many excellent, technical questions, one sits above all others: How will the expansion of HHVBP affect their reimbursement? 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.

Medicare 87

Medicare Performance improvement Quality Assurance Quality Improvement 87

NASHP

MARCH 29, 2024

5 Compared to white, non-Hispanic CYSHCN, CYSHCN who are Black or Latinx are at particular risk of receiving infrequent, low-quality care, 6 while American Indian and Alaska Native CYSHCN are less likely to be able to access specialty treatment or receive culturally sensitive services.

Medicaid 123

Medicaid Quality of Care Quality Assurance Nursing 123

HIT Consultant

JUNE 28, 2022

Disparities in the way medical professionals assess and treat pain in people of color, for example, have been the focus of many studies and reflect an unconscious bias among some medical professionals that prevents members from getting the care they need. Create a social index score.

Quality Assurance 52

Quality Assurance Population Health Medicaid Hospitals 52

NASHP

AUGUST 24, 2023

State health reform efforts increasingly focus on providing comprehensive and well-coordinated care to people with serious illness to improve quality of care and drive down costs. T)he benefit will be made available in all care settings including the community, nursing facilities, and assisted living facilities.”

Medicaid 52

Medicaid Quality Assurance Quality of Care Hospitals 52

Vie Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

50% of adult mental health disorders start before the age of 14, but we put most of our effort and our dollars into older children and into adults, and we’re not focusing on where we can make a difference with early intervention and prevention. Jim (24:13): I wanted to follow up, Helen, with this prevention.

Telemedicine 52

Telemedicine Healthcare Prevention Quality Assurance 52

NASHP

AUGUST 23, 2021

[ii] These shortages of primary care providers (PCPs), who serve as the entry point to medical care and often play a large role in coordinating patient care, create challenges for residents of rural areas, the PCPs who serve them, and the Medicaid agencies responsible for providing access to services for program participants throughout the state.

Primary Care 62

Primary Care Medicaid Accountability Quality Improvement 62