Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 20, 2023

and Jonathan Blum, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services – names you may recognize from CMS National Stakeholder Calls. Ensuring patient safety is at the heart of the Hippocratic Oath: First, Do No Harm. Protecting patients must always remain our first priority. The authors are Lee Fleisher, MD.,

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 27, 2024

Hochul’s 2025 budget and the effort to reduce Medicaid spending, which directly impact the state’s Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program (CDPAP). Do you do Medicare-certified home health care, or is it more Medicaid-based home and community services? Most of our services are Medicaid and long-term care.

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NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

States such as Texas, Wyoming , and New Jersey are adopting Medicaid reimbursement of collaborative care services and are addressing capacity to transition to CoCM. People with COD are significantly more likely to be arrested , with a disproportionate impact on women and Black adults. An action plan dashboard tracks targets.

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KHN

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

. “Unfortunately, pretty much in every regard, the program has been a failure,” said Andrew Ryan , a professor of health care management at the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health, who has published extensively on the program. . In a statement, CMS noted it had limited ability to alter the program.

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Briggs Healthcare

AUGUST 22, 2022

In February 2022, President Biden announced a comprehensive set of reforms to improve the safety and quality of nursing home care, hold nursing homes accountable for the care they provide, and make the quality of care and facility ownership more transparent so that potential residents and their loved ones can make informed care choices. [1]

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Tom Wriggins, Principal Industry Advisor at SAS John Maynard, CPA, CFE, AHFI Principal Solutions Architect at SAS In 2022, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) established health equity as a pillar of its future work. Health outcomes and Medicaid program integrity Health outcomes are a function of the quality of care.

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KHN

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

One problem, he added, is “you’re kind of asking hospitals to call out events that are going to have them lose money, so the incentives are really messed up for hospitals to fully disclose” patient injuries. It said Davis ranked 38th out of 101 academic medical centers that use a private quality measurement system.

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Patient Safety Movement

AUGUST 25, 2023

At June’s World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit, our CEO Dr. Michael Ramsay shared an optimistic perspective about the progress which can be made in patient safety in the next five years through data transparency and evidence-based medicine. “I The current structure fails patients on a colossal scale.

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Patient Safety Movement

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Joe’s passion for patient safety has been a driving force behind breakthrough developments in medical innovation at the company he founded, Masimo. Research has shown sufficient, high-quality staffing is closely linked to the quality-of-care residents receive.

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Briggs Healthcare

JULY 6, 2023

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Surveyor workforce – the federal inspectors of the long-term care industry – should be adequately funded, and the surveyors themselves properly trained in identifying infections.

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 2, 2022

The purpose of this primer is to provide updated information to the patient safety community about the challenges of ensuring the safe care of older adults in Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing homes (NHs) associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, and the federal and state efforts taken to mitigate these challenges.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Patients receive numerous benefits: they remain in their homes, and they tend to be more functional post-discharge, making it hard to argue against this model. Patient safety and quality of care Research indicates that patients needing care prefer to receive it in their homes rather than in a hospital setting.

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KHN

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

They argued the procedures were done needlessly, in keeping with a corporate strategy to maximize profits by overtreating kids from lower-income families enrolled in Medicaid. Senate report cited the TV exposé in voicing alarm at the " corporate practice of dentistry in the Medicaid program.” Five years later, a U.S.

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KHN

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

They argued the procedures were done needlessly, in keeping with a corporate strategy to maximize profits by overtreating kids from lower-income families enrolled in Medicaid. Senate report cited the TV exposé in voicing alarm at the " corporate practice of dentistry in the Medicaid program.” Five years later, a U.S.

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