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‘We Will Be Paying For This For Years’: 8 Home Health C-Suite Leaders Sound Off On ‘Alarming’ Medicare Cuts

Home Health Care

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published its home health proposed payment rule for 2024. This rewards agencies that have not invested in quality improvement programs, penalizes those that have, and makes it harder to set goals, measure progress and make any needed course corrections. — Cleamon Moorer Jr.,

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Impact of hospital mergers on quality: a case study

Healthcare ECONOMIST

Before the merger, NYULH consisted of a multispecialty academic acute care hospital (450 beds) and a specialized orthopedic, rheumatic, and neurologic treatment and rehabilitation hospital (190 beds). Before the merger, funding was lacking for technology and infrastructure investments to support quality improvement.

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Updated Provider Demographic Update Instructions

Briggs Healthcare

The updated CMS 855A form must be sent by the Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) to the appropriate State Agency rather than to the CMS Location. These demographic data include such items as the provider name, provider-mailing address, provider physical address, State, ZIP Code, etc.

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Coming Soon: 2023 CMS Health Equity Confidential Feedback Reports to be Released Next Month

Briggs Healthcare

CMS will release the Health Equity Confidential Feedback Reports through the Internet Quality Improvement & Evaluation System (iQIES) reports folders. The PAC Health Equity Confidential Feedback Reports will stratify the DTC and MSPB measures by dual-enrollment status and race/ethnicity.

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SNF/IRF/LTCH QRP May 15, 2023 Submission Deadline Reminder

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The submission deadline for the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF), Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH), and Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Quality Reporting Programs is approaching.

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IRF/LTCH/SNF QRP February 15, 2023 Submission Deadline Reminder

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The submission deadline for the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF), Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH), and Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Quality Reporting Programs is approaching.

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IRF/LTCH/SNF QRP November 15, 2022 Submission Deadline Reminder

Briggs Healthcare

The submission deadline for the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF), Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH), and Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Quality Reporting Programs is approaching. SNF Quality Reporting Program Data Submission Deadlines.