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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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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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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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NCQA Joins White House Listening Session on the Opioid Crisis  

NCQA

How NCQAs Work Contributes to Improving OUD Treatment NCQA is taking steps to address the gaps in OUD treatment and quality measurement. We published a white paper, Improving Accountability for Behavioral Health Care Access , and are developing a HEDIS measure for network adequacy.

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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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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.

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

NASHP

Regional accountable entities. This program was intended to ready providers to meet increased expectations under phase 2 of Colorado’s accountable care collaborative (ACC), [iii] which was under development at that time. Value care organizations may participate under a risk or shared savings only option. Oklahoma*.