Social Work Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2021

CSWs may participate in the QPP by earning a payment adjustment for Medicare Part B covered professional services based on a performance evaluation across different categories that focus on the quality of care provided to a patient. Medicare has identified 15 measures that CSWs may use to report quality services.

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Relias

JANUARY 8, 2024

Medicare payment systems link patient satisfaction scores with reimbursement rates, making quality patient care a primary determinant of an organization’s viability and motivating healthcare administrators to implement patient satisfaction strategies. But gaining patient trust isn’t the only benefit of high patient satisfaction scores.

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Michigan Social Work

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Sagi-Schwartz earned his BA in social work from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and at U-M received his MSW, an MA in psychology and a PhD in the Joint Program in Social Work and Social Science (developmental psychology).

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Relias

JANUARY 30, 2024

Healthcare organizations receive scores from the HCAHPS survey , which according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, is “the first national, standardized, publicly reported survey of patients’ perspectives of hospital care.” The data is then tabulated to create the HCAHPS score.

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Relias

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The percentage of Medicare hospice beneficiaries dying with a diagnosis of dementia or Parkinson’s disease, some of whom have dementia, has increased from 9% in 2002 to almost 21% in 2019, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization’s Facts and Figure Report 2021 Edition.

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