HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

What You Should Know: – The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) has initiated the Virtual Care Accreditation Pilot program, a significant step in developing a quality improvement framework for organizations offering care through telehealth or digital platforms.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 4, 2023

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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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

What You Should Know: – The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) has introduced a groundbreaking new program designed to evaluate and accredit organizations offering virtual care services.

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NCQA

DECEMBER 18, 2024

How NCQA’s Work Supports This Goal NCQA created the Race and Ethnicity Stratification Learning Network to investigate the challenges and opportunities of using race and ethnicity data for quality improvement, to gather insights on how plans are overcoming challenges and to get an early look at HEDIS measures stratified by race and ethnicity.

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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. Benefits of Virtual Care Accreditation Virtual health care is now a core function of the care delivery system.

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Briggs Healthcare

APRIL 7, 2022

“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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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. Through this program, Colorado is seeking to both improve behavioral health services and better integrate them with physical health. [v]

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