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Mitigating Serious Fall Risks and Associated Costs and Injuries with AI-Driven Motion Sensor Technology

HIT Consultant

As is often the case in today’s healthcare environment, advanced technologies powered by artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are emerging as a potential solution, helping to both prevent falls and accelerate recovery when falls lead to injury – particularly when they can be used in the comfort of the patient’s home.

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CMS Revises Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 State Performance Standards System (SPSS) Guidance

Briggs Healthcare

Resources to Improve Quality of Care: Check out CMS’s new Quality in Focus interactive video series. The series of 10–15-minute videos are tailored to provider types and aim to reduce the deficiencies most commonly cited during the CMS survey process, like infection control and accident prevention.

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Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 SNF PPS Proposed Rule (CMS 1779-P)

Briggs Healthcare

These actions support the Administration’s plan to improve safety and quality of care in nursing homes, and CMS remains committed to proposing minimum staffing standards for nursing facilities later this spring. This fact sheet discusses the major provisions of the proposed rule.

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HCPCS vs CPT: Everything You Need to Know

Etactics

Preventing denial codes is essential if you want to keep a steady revenue flow. This is an easily preventable billing error, which we are going to go over in this blog. H Codes - Rehabilitative services. These codes provide data about the quality of care given. 99397 - Preventive exam (over the age 65).

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The Critical Shift in ASC EHR Adoption: Overcoming Barriers

HIT Consultant

The EHR is the best way to support the immediate and long-term trajectory of a patient’s health by allowing for more efficient information gathering and information analysis along the continuum of care, including preventive care, through medical incidents, rehabilitation and maintenance.

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Weighing Policy Trade-offs: Building State Capacity to Address Health Care Consolidation

NASHP

Evidence suggests that vertical integration and growing consolidation in health care leads to higher hospital and provider prices and higher total spending — all while having little to no impact on improving quality of care for patients, reducing utilization, or improving efficiency.

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National Care Coordination Standards for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN): Proceedings from the National Forum on Care Coordination for CYSHCN

NASHP

For example, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Innovation Center is currently supporting the Integrated Care for Kids (InCK) model across seven sites in six states. This model aims to improve quality of care for children, including CYSHCN, through integrated care delivery systems that include care coordination.[12].