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Value-Based Purchasing and the Role of Home Care Software, Our Ultimate Guide

AlayaCare

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services predicts that health spending will grow at an average annual rate of 5.4 percent improvement in HHAs’ total performance scores (TPS) and an average annual savings of $141 million to Medicare without evidence of adverse risks.” Download our VBP e-guide. trillion by 2028.

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What you need to know about the home health value-based purchasing

AlayaCare

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services predicts that health spending will grow at an average annual rate of 5.4 Download our VBP guide to learn more about the VBP process and how your agency can best prepare for it. percent for 2019-28 and to reach $6.2 While the U.S. What outcomes were measured and how?

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What you need to know about the home health value-based purchasing

AlayaCare

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services predicts that health spending will grow at an average annual rate of 5.4 Download our VBP guide to learn more about the VBP process and how your agency can best prepare for it. percent for 2019-28 and to reach $6.2 While the U.S. A quick recap on the HHVBP pilot program.

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OASIS Nursing Notes: How to Write Medicare-Friendly Notes That Get Approved

The Productive Home Health Nurse

It took me 2 long months to get an understanding of the OASIS nursing note and another 2 weeks or so before I figured out how to speak the Medicare language. Therefore, not properly writing or attempting to skip this portion means preventing Medicare approval, and depriving your patients of life-saving health care.

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Achoo! Springtime is PEPPER season

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

PEPPER is a report that uses National SNF claims data to identify areas within the SNF prospective payment system (PPS) that could be at risk for improper Medicare payment. First, we need to remember that PEPPER target areas were identified by CMS as being potentially at risk for improper Medicare payments.

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Should You Become a Nurse Practitioner?

Nurse.com

Another clear barrier to care is economic — many physicians are unable to accept Medicaid, while many Americans on Medicare struggle to find primary care physicians and specialists accepting new patients. It is no surprise, then, that NPs are in particular demand in rural America and, over 80% of NPs accept Medicare and Medicaid patients.

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New Resource to Support Outreach to Chinese American Communities

NHPCO

Yet, the uptake amongst white Medicare beneficiaries remains higher than among their Asian, Black, Hispanic, or Native Americans peers. The data show that the number of people choosing hospice care has grown for twenty years. To get to equitable access, providers need to focus on making connections with these communities. “The