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CY 2022 Medicare Quality Payment Program for Clinical Social Workers: Frequently Asked Questions

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MIPS was designed to tie payments to quality and cost efficient care, drive improvement in care processes and health outcomes, increase the use of healthcare information, and reduce the cost of care. Medicare has identified 15 measures that CSWs may use to report quality services. 15 other provider types participate in the QPP.

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Innovations in Behavioral Healthcare: A Digital Path to Resilience

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innovations in behavioral healthcare?as Innovations in Behavioral Healthcare and the Path to Digital Transformation. A Case Study of Digital Transformation in Behavioral Healthcare. Paving the Way to Innovations in Behavioral Healthcare. Innovations in Behavioral Healthcare and the Path to Digital Transformation.

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How to Keep Patients Satisfied — and Raise Your Patient Satisfaction Scores

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Improving patient experience scores is a goal for many healthcare organizations — and for good reason. As they consider new ideas to raise patient satisfaction, healthcare leaders must have an understanding of the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) scoring system that evaluates these efforts.

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Hospice Billing Compliance: The Latest PEPPER Updates

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The provider-specific PEPPER analyzes Medicare data and statistics from discharges and services compared with every hospice nationwide. healthcare providers. A CMS contractor who develops and distributes PEPPER — TMF Health Quality Institute — organizes and creates the report to monitor healthcare program integrity.

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Understanding the PEPPER Can Reduce Home Health and Skilled Nursing Audit Risks

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But there is a particular educational tool that tends to fall under the radar of many healthcare organizations. Every year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) releases the Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER). Medicare has identified 10 target areas as risky for proper payments.

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Care Coordination: The Key to Improving Patient Outcomes

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According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), care coordination is “the deliberate organization of patient care activities between two or more participants (including the patient) involved in a patient’s care to facilitate the appropriate delivery of health care services.”

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Nurse-Midwives: Solution for Maternity Care Deserts?

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maternal mortality continues to increase despite the availability of world-class healthcare resources. Along with providing training and resources, they help midwives overcome the distrust of healthcare providers that often surfaces in marginalized populations. In the U.S., million U.S. Nearly 40% of U.S. counties without OB care.