HIT Consultant

JANUARY 16, 2025

Transforming Episode-Based Accountable Management) model will redefine care coordination, creating a smarter, faster, and more equitable healthcare system. Expect to see more shared accountability evolve through the standardization of metrics and shared investments to make healthier populations.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 11, 2024

These new regulations took effect on Aug. The regulations require that all direct care employees either be certified nursing assistants or have completed or be enrolled in department-approved training to become a personal support specialist, which is a type of non-medical direct care worker. .” This is not the case.

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p3care

MAY 31, 2024

An ACO (Accountable Care Organization) works for the better care of patients. Complying with all these regulations helps in avoiding penalties. ACO Expertise, for instance, health care providers, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and clinical nurse specialists in group practices.

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Quality of Care Doctors Medicare Patient Experience 130

Home Health Care

APRIL 16, 2025

It focuses primarily on skilled private-duty nursing services but also offers pediatric therapy, licensed health aide services and certified nurse assistant services. This segment accounts for about 11% of our revenue, and we intend to increase that to 20% and eventually 30% within the same timeframe.

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Medicaid Nursing Hospice Care Home Care 59

Home Health Care

JANUARY 22, 2025

This situation leads to increased emergency department (ED) visits, hospital admissions or placements in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). This means that all team members such as nurses, therapists, social workers and home health aidesmust work together to provide comprehensive patient care in a home setting. territories.

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Briggs Healthcare

AUGUST 19, 2022

These items have been added to the OIG work plan this month (August): “Understanding skilled nursing facilities’ (SNFs’) costs is crucial to understanding the factors that contribute to nursing home performance and how nursing homes deliver care to beneficiaries. This information is found here.

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Nursing Medicare Regulations Accountability 104

Home Health Care

OCTOBER 18, 2024

This includes denying access to nursing homes, inpatient rehabilitation facilities and long-term acute care hospitals. It’s past time for legislators and regulators to hold plans accountable and protect patient care.” Patients are being hung out to dry by MA plans’ delays and denials. Founded in 1966, the Washington D.C.-based

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Rehabilitation Regulations Medicare Hospitals 111

Briggs Healthcare

AUGUST 19, 2022

Five individuals and two for-profit skilled nursing facilities in Southwestern Pennsylvania have been indicted by federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States and related health care fraud charges, United States Attorney Cindy K. This is a news release you need to read. as co-defendants.

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Nursing Rehabilitation Medicaid Medicare 74

Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has stated its objective to enroll all of its Medicare beneficiaries in accountable care relationships by 2030. They go out and try to aggregate nursing homes, or home health organizations that they can work with in a much tighter knit way.” Currently, roughly 13.2

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Briggs Healthcare

APRIL 7, 2022

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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Nursing Quality of Care Quality Assurance Home Care 52

Briggs Healthcare

JULY 28, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Examination of Staffing Shortages at US Nursing Homes During the COVID-19 Pandemic was published in JAMA Network Open on July 27, 2023. Short-term compensatory strategies were used by administrators to comply with minimum staffing regulations and offset staffing shortages.

Nursing 52

Nursing Regulations Integration Accountability 52

Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 10, 2022

LTCCC (Long Term Care Community Coalition) posted this alert on March 3, 2022: “Federal requirements mandate that nursing homes have sufficient staff, with the appropriate competencies to meet the clinical, emotional, and psychosocial needs of every resident. Total Nurse Staff HPRD, incl. million nursing home residents.

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NASHP

AUGUST 30, 2023

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) promulgated final regulations for REHs at 87 Fed.Reg. This new federal REH designation took effect on January 1, 2023. REHs can have hospital outpatient departments and may set up a distinct skilled nursing facility unit at the site. 1395x(kkk)(2). 58640 (August 28, 2023).

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Hospitals Regulations Medicare Medicaid 121

Etactics

MARCH 7, 2025

From the Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) training sessions, or even standard training courses. However, most Healthcare LMSs have HIPAA ( Health Industry Portability and Accountability Act) training. This is due to the change of having employees make accounts and learn how to use the system.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Accountability Patient Safety Regulations 52

HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

With the skyrocketing investment in virtual care, new legal regulations that expand the possibilities of remote healthcare, the telehealth industry is predicted to expand from $3 billion to $250 billion. Firstly, many do not have digital skills like creating an account or using a web camera. On-demand nursing. Viable software.

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Telemedicine Healthcare Regulations Nursing 98

Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care. It is important to note that the use of services, like skilled nursing at home, can impact downstream costs and reduce the unnecessary utilization of high-cost care.

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Regulations Hospice Care Accountability Nursing 98

Sheppard Health Law

JANUARY 2, 2024

At long last, the cost and market impact review (CMIR) regulations promulgated by the California Office of Health Care Affordability (OHCA) have been approved by the California Office of Administrative Law (OAL). Who is subject to the CMIR process?

Regulations 59

Regulations Healthcare Primary Care Hospitals 59

Home Health Care

OCTOBER 17, 2021

An alternative for nursing-home eligible patients, PACE is normally run out of communities, using a group of different providers to provide holistic care for participants. There was no place for individuals to go from the hospital when they had COVID because nursing homes were not taking people.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Regulatory frameworks such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) impose stringent requirements on healthcare providers to safeguard patient data, underscoring the legal and ethical obligations to maintain robust cybersecurity measures.

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Healthcare Regulations Doctors Healthcare Providers 111

Home Health Care

MAY 24, 2024

Second, CMS and the Medicare Payment Advisory Council (MedPAC) must seek to develop new policy approaches that account for Medicare’s cost-savings and support a sustainable funding model for Medicare, Medicaid and MA. A skilled nursing facility costs an astronomical $16,500 for that same care.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 17, 2022

The proposed rule validated concerns that providers have had since the hospice proposed rule and skilled-nursing-facility proposed rules came out earlier this year. “We “This decrease reflects the effects of the proposed 2.9% home health payment update percentage ($560 million increase), an estimated 6.9%

Accountability 111

Accountability Home Care Medicaid Medicare 111

Home Health Care

JANUARY 9, 2023

So, I started the course from the viewpoint of a new nurse with little to no experience in home health or wound care. Most nurses entering the home health sector do not have experience treating wounds or more specifically, the chronic wounds seen in home health. Wound training should be part of orientation.

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Regulations Nursing Medicare Quality of Care 105

Home Health Care

JANUARY 26, 2022

“Patrick is a proven and effective leader who has the board’s full support to lead InnovAge and to quickly address the issues that have arisen with CMS and our regulators in California and Colorado,” InnovAge Board Chair Andrew Cavanna said in a press release. “We Paul, Minnesota-based health care spending account (HSA) administrator.

Regulations 98

Regulations Care Transition Medicaid Medicare 98

HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Multiple studies, from The Nurse Practitioner and the Annals of Medicine and Surgery , identify POCUS as a convenient tool that reduces the number of imaging tests required to achieve a diagnosis and is able to circumvent barriers that have prevented certain populations from being able to access medical imaging in the past.

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Prevention Hospitals Integration Hospital IT 111

Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The number of home care aides employed in New York grew from 250,000 in 2011 to 480,000 in 2021, accounting for almost two-thirds of the state’s net job growth during that period. Right now, nursing homes, in particular, are having trouble hiring people,” Hammond said. “If

Home Care 98

Home Care Medicaid Law Firms Nursing 98

HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that obesity accounts for $147 billion in annual healthcare costs, an amount which could be greatly lowered through use of the new drugs. GLP-1 medications have also been shown to improve outcomes for patients with diabetes, heart disease and other chronic conditions.

Doctors 98

Doctors Patient Experience Pharmaceuticals Nursing 98

Bill Of Health

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Unsafe maternity care has been a constant theme in the inspection reports of the Care Quality Commission (CQC), our independent regulator of health and social care in 2021. Legal issues surrounding clinical negligence, compensation, and the accountability of individual practitioners. A crisis in maternity care .

Patient Safety 96

Patient Safety Hospitals Regulations Accountability 96

NASHP

JANUARY 12, 2024

Direct care workers — such as personal care and home care aides as well as certified nursing assistants — provide care services to individuals and older adults with complex needs. Acknowledgements NASHP would like to express our gratitude to The John A. Hartford Foundation, the Ralph C. Wilson, Jr.

Medicaid 64

Medicaid Nursing Accountability Medicare 64

Home Health Care

MARCH 7, 2025

But some questions have been swirling around private equity activity in health care, with the federal and state governments holding hearings, issuing scathing reports about how care quality declines under PE ownership, and taking action to regulate this type of investment in light of spectacular failures such as the implosion of Steward Health Care.

Home Care 59

Home Care Medicare Regulations Quality of Care 59

Home Health Care

MARCH 30, 2023

The reality is that CMS has rebased payment rates to account for the reduction of therapy visits that came about solely because of PDGM,” National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) President William A. Labor costs for nurses home health aides are up – in some places, you can’t even find folks,” he said.

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Medicare Accountability Hospitals Home Care 111

Home Health Care

AUGUST 1, 2022

Broadly, Choose Home would allow for more skilled nursing facility (SNF) diversion in post-acute care, allowing home health agencies – utilizing an add-on to their existing home health benefit – to care for more higher-acuity patients in the home. Use predictive analytics to identify patient needs and prioritize patient visits.”.

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Home Care Hospitals Regulations Accountability 98

Vie Healthcare

AUGUST 23, 2023

I’m sure you know from a nurse’s standpoint, how important that is. Actually, the number one occupational injury for nurses is moving patients in the country, ergonomics. There are then… Of course, we talked about before with the medical device tiers, the regulations. You got to take that into account.’’

Nursing 98

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NASHP

MAY 26, 2023

Trials have found that when older adults’ caregivers receive supports that include respite, caregiver outcomes improve, older adults’ nursing home placement is delayed, and there is a decrease in hospital readmissions and emergency room expenditures. nursing home) to receive long-term care services in their home and community.

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Medicaid Nursing Regulations Integration 121

Home Health Care

OCTOBER 11, 2021

How can we help our customers deliver the most efficient care — hence, Careficient — they can while navigating them through the stringent regulator environments we are forced to operate in today? Earlier I mentioned that our staff is nimble, and part of that is that the salesperson becomes the client’s account manager.

Home Care 98

Home Care Accountability Regulations Medicaid 98

Sheppard Health Law

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

According to the Congressional Research Service, which analyzed data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) National Health Expenditure Accounts (“NHEA”) on the personal health expenditures for LTSS by payer, in 2021, an estimated $467.4 billion was spent on LTSS. This represents 13.2% of LTSS spending. [5]

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Medicaid Medicare Accountability Nursing 52

HIT Consultant

AUGUST 29, 2022

When the documents can’t be read, exception handling cases have to be created and accounted for, which adds time and resources to the project scope. A charge nurse might know exactly what they want to fix, and with a low-code platform, they’re able to create the ideal process without waiting for a team of IT resources to become available.

Patient Experience 52

Patient Experience Healthcare Nursing Accountability 52

HIT Consultant

APRIL 7, 2023

Additionally, digitized health records have been used to make patient information more easily accessible, first to meet Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and HITECH mandates, and now, increasingly, to meet the 21st Century Cures Act ‘Final Rule’ mandate, requiring timely and standardized access to all patient data.

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