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NCQA Launches Virtual Care Accreditation Pilot

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) has initiated the Virtual Care Accreditation Pilot program, a significant step in developing a quality improvement framework for organizations offering care through telehealth or digital platforms.

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Florence Health Adopts Innovaccer Health Cloud to Scale R&D

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Florence Health , a next-generation, fully risk-bearing, primary care provider, has partnered with Innovaccer to move its proprietary technology development to the Innovaccer Health Cloud. .

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Measuring What Matters: Opportunities for States

NASHP

Person-driven outcomes ” are personalized, structured, measurable goals identified by a person with complex health status or caregiver and can be used for both care planning and quality measurement. National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), in partnership with the SCAN Foundation and The John A.

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Primary Care Case Management in Medicaid: A Strategy for Supporting Primary Care in Rural Areas

NASHP

Primary care case management (PCCM) programs are one of the oldest types of Medicaid managed care, but over time most states have shifted to use managed care organizations (MCOs) to deliver services to Medicaid participants. ii] Rural areas are highly likely to suffer from shortages of primary care and other providers.

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Seven Steps for Building a Community-Based Palliative Care Benefit Within Medicaid

NASHP

High-quality palliative care can both improve quality of life and avoid unnecessary and often unwanted treatments for Medicaid enrollees with serious illness. States can support palliative care in a number of ways and across a range of settings (e.g., in hospitals, embedded within enhanced primary care, via home health).

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Back to the Future: Welcome to the Patient Centered Medical Home (Guest Post)

Health Dialog

If you have questions afterwards, you may feel left on your own to manage your care. As a primary care doctor, the challenges my patients faced were frustrating me, too. I wanted my practice to provide easy access to comprehensive medical care. It’s a new way to organize how a primary care office works.

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State Approaches to Behavioral Health Measures in Medicaid Managed Care

NASHP

However, there are several common elements in these processes, including that the measure has been validated, is evidence-based, is regularly updated — and a group of leaders in the field have determined that each measures an important aspect of care.