NCQA

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

NCQA’s Virtual Care Accreditation program provides a quality improvement framework for organizations that deliver primary care and/or urgent care through virtual modalities. In the program pilot, 18 organizations offered valuable input into the program’s development. Milibeth C.,

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Home Health Care

APRIL 28, 2023

Aside from the 80% provision, the proposal also establishes a new strategy for oversight, monitoring, quality assurance and quality improvement for HCBS programs. The Richmond, Virginia-based Care Advantage is a home-based care company that has 38 locations throughout Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Washington, D.C.,

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Briggs Healthcare

JUNE 28, 2022

Presenters recommended the use of solutions customized to specific groups, as well as engaging with patients and community organizations as key stakeholders when developing quality improvement models and strategies. All recorded sessions from the 2022 CMS Quality Conference are available at Quality Conference 2022 on Vimeo.

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Briggs Healthcare

APRIL 7, 2022

Extreme care needs to be taken to ensure that quality improvement initiatives are implemented using strategies that do not exacerbate disparities in resources, quality of care, or resident outcomes. High-quality research is needed to advance the quality of care in nursing homes.

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NCQA

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

By improving exchange of social needs data, this standard reduces the need for multiple care providers and organizations to ask the same questions over and over. Including QuestionnaireResponse not only supports social needs screening and intervention, it also helps PROMs and other patient assessments used in quality improvement programs.

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Sequence Health

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

A data-driven approach in call center operations ensures that healthcare organizations can continuously improve their service delivery and meet patient needs effectively. Quality Improvement Initiatives Quality improvement initiatives are crucial in call centers to ensure that callers receive the best possible service.

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NASHP

APRIL 17, 2023

Performance measurement is a pillar of state Medicaid managed care quality improvement and oversight efforts, is often factored into plan payment, and supports public reporting.

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Etactics

JUNE 21, 2024

They provide additional information for quality assurance. As well as quality improvement and enhancing patient care outcomes. As well as psychotherapy sessions and psychiatric diagnostic evaluations. Category II codes are more so optional than anything. As well as patient outcomes and adherence to best practices.

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NASHP

APRIL 17, 2023

Performance measurement is a pillar of state quality improvement and oversight. In addition, CMS and the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) both produce national performance metrics that states can use as performance benchmarks. It is often factored into plan payment, and it supports public reporting.

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NASHP

MAY 8, 2023

39 These regulations also do not apply in the context of data collection as part of quality improvement in health care. Data: Cara James et al., “ Federal Action Is Needed to Improve Race and Ethnicity Data in Health Programs ” (Grantmakers In Health and National Committee for Quality Assurance, October 2021).

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NASHP

DECEMBER 10, 2021

NCQA National Committee for Quality Assurance. 7022), in existence for over fifteen years, is a statewide network of NCQA certified Patient Centered Medical Homes (PCMHs) which are supported by regional program managers, quality improvement managers, self-management program coordinators, and a regional Community Health Team (CHT).

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NASHP

AUGUST 23, 2021

For example, to move from tier 3 to tier 4, the provider must meet all the requirements of tier 3 and several new requirements, such as having a well-established quality improvement process. Lessons Learned Using PCCM Programs to Improve Primary Care Innovations Need to be Designed to Achieve Specific Goals and Objectives.

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NASHP

MARCH 29, 2024

31 Telehealth Michigan Michigan’s Children’s Special Health Care Services Division collaborates with key statewide partners to lead the Michigan Pediatric Epilepsy Project , an initiative to improve health outcomes for children and youth with epilepsy, particularly those in rural and underserved communities.

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NASHP

MAY 8, 2023

Regardless, most experts note that striking the right balance between securing data quality and determining when data are complete enough to advance policymaking can be challenging — suggesting a continuous quality improvement approach. National efforts to standardize are useful to inform state approaches.

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