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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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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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Value-Based Purchasing: Is Your Agency Ready?

Home Health Care

One specific area where agencies will need to adapt is tracking and improving quality measures, starting with both the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) and the Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) improvement scores.

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LightSpring Home Care’s New Leader Wants To Prove Smaller Agencies Can Do Big Things

Home Health Care

Through quality initiatives that we are doing internally, through metrics that are already very high here, quality assurance initiatives. Aligning the company with its MCO partners on “all things” value-based care will be a top priority for the new guy in charge. “I

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The National Imperative to Improve Nursing Home Quality

Briggs Healthcare

“Nursing homes play a unique dual role in the long-term care continuum, serving as a place where people receive needed health care and a place they call home. The 1986 Institute of Medicine report Improving the Quality of Care in Nursing Homes identified a range of challenges to the quality of care in nursing homes.

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How to Improve Your VBP Scores and Boost Medicare Payments

Home Health Care

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.

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How Tech Can Improve Health Plan Performance & Star Ratings

HIT Consultant

Fortunately, new technology can help health plans boost plan performance while promoting better care and early detection of chronic illnesses. The Star Rating system, which measures the quality of care and member satisfaction in privately managed Medicare plans, helps consumers compare the benefits and costs of different plans.