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How to Improve Your VBP Scores and Boost Medicare Payments

Home Health Care

Yet while home-based care providers certainly have many excellent, technical questions, one sits above all others: How will the expansion of HHVBP affect their reimbursement? Since CMS standardized it in 2018, Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement program, or QAPI, has served as a guiding light for home-based care providers.

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Center of Excellence for Behavioral Health in Nursing Facilities (COE-NF) Launches March 15, 2023

Briggs Healthcare

SAMHSA provides leadership, supports programs and services, and devotes resources to helping people act on the knowledge that behavioral health is essential to health, prevention works, treatment is effective, and people recover.

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CMS Action to Expand Access to Emergency Care Services in Rural Communities  

Briggs Healthcare

The overall policy goal of this proposed rule is to establish Conditions of Participation (CoPs) to ensure the health and safety of patients who will receive REH services in the most efficient manner possible, while taking into consideration the access and quality of care needs of an REH’s patient population.

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First Do No Harm

Briggs Healthcare

and Jonathan Blum, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services – names you may recognize from CMS National Stakeholder Calls. As the nation’s largest payer for health care, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) mission in our National Quality Strategy includes ensuring everyone is safe when they receive care.

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State Policy Considerations to Support Equitable Systems of Care for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs 

NASHP

5 Compared to white, non-Hispanic CYSHCN, CYSHCN who are Black or Latinx are at particular risk of receiving infrequent, low-quality care, 6 while American Indian and Alaska Native CYSHCN are less likely to be able to access specialty treatment or receive culturally sensitive services.

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Supporting the Continuum of Care for Serious Illness in Medicaid Managed Care

NASHP

Well-coordinated care that anticipates and manages the symptoms and stressors of serious illness can help people with these and other complex conditions reduce pain and suffering , avoid receiving treatment that does not align with their wishes , and prevent overutilization of care.

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Expanding the Perinatal Workforce through Medicaid Coverage of Doula and Midwifery Services

NASHP

With more than 40 percent of births financed by Medicaid, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has developed an action plan that corresponds with goals outlined in the White House blueprint. States can test innovative care models with section 1115 demonstration waivers. Implement quality and performance initiatives.