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NCQA Supports NASEM’s Report on Ending Unequal Treatment

NCQA

Goal 2: Equip health care systems and expand effective and sustainable interventions. Lack of standardized performance measures makes it difficult to hold health systems and clinicians accountable for equitable care. NCQA believes that high-quality care is equitable care.

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HEDIS® Public Comment Period Is Now Open

NCQA

NCQA seeks public feedback on proposed new measures, changes to existing measures and measure retirements,and NCQA acknowledges that the health care policy environment is rapidly evolving at this time.Reviewers are asked to submit comments to NCQA in writing via the Public Comment website by 5:00 p.m. (ET), ET), Thursday, March 13.

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

Home Health Care

Before joining LightSpring, Primavera also served as the director of business development and account management at CareGivers America, which is a part of Modivcare Inc. Through quality initiatives that we are doing internally, through metrics that are already very high here, quality assurance initiatives. Nasdaq: MODV).

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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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Voices: Kris Novak, Managing Director, The Braff Group

Home Health Care

They may burden the company with additional costs to stabilize the growth profile or pay a lower multiple to account for the risk of reigniting growth. These organizations often have similar objectives regarding employees, quality of care and access to care.

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What Price Transparency?: California SB 650 Shines Light on Skilled Nursing Facility Ownership while creating New Reporting Burdens for California Skilled Nursing Facilities

Sheppard Health Law

AB 1042 (Jones Sawyer): Related Party Accountability. Related parties will be liable for unpaid state monetary penalties for citations and unpaid Quality Assurance Fees. Restores facility liability to up to $500 for each violation of a resident’s rights. AB 1502 (Muratsuchi): Nursing Home Ownership and Management Reform.

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Sustainability and Value: State Palliative Care Reimbursement Strategies

NASHP

State health reform efforts increasingly focus on providing comprehensive and well-coordinated care to people with serious illness to improve quality of care and drive down costs. A recent Health Affairs article reviewed opportunities to incorporate a palliative care benefit into ACOs.