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‘We Will Be Paying For This For Years’: 8 Home Health C-Suite Leaders Sound Off On ‘Alarming’ Medicare Cuts

Home Health Care

CMS’ proposal to increase oversight and regulation specific to home health and hospice M&A activity will likely have impacts on the M&A landscape in 2024 and beyond. The unfortunate catch-22 results in readmissions to hospitals and, perhaps, even being wait-listed for long-term care centers and rehabilitation centers.

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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

High-quality, integrated care requires strong system-level partnerships, information and data sharing, and family-centered practices. Yet, states often face barriers to integrated care including a lack of trust across agencies, privacy regulations that may hinder data sharing, and misaligned eligibility, enrollment, and referral systems.

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

NASHP

Will quality improve or be maintained? Oregon How will access improve and disparities be reduced, particularly for medically underserved groups (MUGs)? Will quality improve or be maintained? How will architectural impairments be addressed for patients with mobility impairments?

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CalAIM: Leveraging Medicaid Managed Care for Housing and Homelessness Supports

NASHP

Community Supports (formerly "In Lieu of Services") California is able to provide community supports, or “in lieu of services” (ILOS), as cost-effective substitutes to medical services covered under the state plan under the federal regulation 42 C.F.R. Cannot include funding for building modification or rehabilitation. [8]

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Behavioral Health System Modernization along the Continuum

NASHP

In addition to funding mobile response services, Connecticut has also established a Mobile Crisis Intervention Services Performance Improvement Center (PIC) to support the collection and analysis of data, implement quality improvement activities, and support providers to enhance their clinical competencies and delivery of MCIS.

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Why The Healthcare Industry Needs Blockchain More Than Ever

HIT Consultant

To serve the unique requirements of a sensitive industry that is bound by stringent regulations, we require a customized healthcare system that grants legitimacy to all participants within the blockchain. Doesn’t that sound like what the healthcare industry is in need of most? What is Proof of Competence (PoC)?

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The Direct Care Workforce

NASHP

By improving coordination, states can more effectively target common barriers to employment (e.g., Some regulate PCA training, while others have different standards depending on the program. State regulation can promote delegation by developing guidance, training, and competency testing for nurse-delegated tasks.

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