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

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Every year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) releases the Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER). Long‐term acute care hospitals. Partial hospitalization programs. Short-term acute care hospitals. Critical access hospitals. Home health agencies.

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

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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. Organizations can use data to tailor their interactions and interventions to their own patient population.

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The Payoff of Wound Care Education: Get a Return on Your Investment

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Reducing the number of hospital- or facility-acquired pressure injuries, which are nonreimbursable. Reducing hospital readmission rates by consistently attending to risk factors. Of course, CMS will not reimburse for costs associated with hospital- or facility-acquired pressure injuries. Reduce Hospital Readmissions.

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A disappointing report from the Senate Finance Committee

Child Welfare Monitor

.” It does not define RTF’s, but the term clearly refers to facilities that provide behavioral health services in a residential context to children with funding from programs under SFC jurisdiction, mainly Medicaid and foster care funds under Title IV-E of the Social Security Act.

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Nurse-Midwives: Solution for Maternity Care Deserts?

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No hospitals or birth centers offering obstetric care. This can help improve access to equitable and culturally informed maternity care in under-resourced areas, lower costs, reduce unnecessary medical interventions that contribute to risks of maternal mortality and morbidity,” and more, according to the study’s researchers.

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COVID-19 Three Years Later: A Changing Landscape

Social Work Blog

Safe and effective, COVID-19 vaccines have been shown to prevent severe illness, hospitalization, and death. The Committee’s position has been evolving over the last several months. Learn more about Connect to End COVID-19 by visiting NASW’s website.

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Care Coordination: The Key to Improving Patient Outcomes

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” The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) defines care coordination more holistically as “the process of ensuring that the patient’s health needs and preferences for health information and services are met across the continuum of care.”