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Quality Assurance data for Performance Improvement
How specific are your clinicians when developing a Patient Fall Program? How do you track and educate clinicians to reduce and or prevent patient injuries related to patients\' falls? The Triangle Pyramid...
Understanding Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP)
Understanding the role that Medicare Secondary Payer plays to patient care and your agency is critical.
Submitting Request for Records to Medicare
More than 47% of denials by PalmettoGBA for the period of 10/2017-12/2018 were related to...... Read More...
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Ready for CMS QAPI Program?
According to CMS in 2011 several nursing homes providers begun testing CMS QAPI Program, Quality Assurance (QA) and Performance Improvement (PI), Program which includes Five Elements...
Falls
Patients falls are a marker of frailty, immobility...
Results from the Target Probe & Educate Audit for October 1, 2017 - October 2, 2019.
Results from October 1, 2017-October 2, 2019 TP&E.
Patient-Driven Grouping Model (PDGM)-Effective January 1, 2020 CMS Home Health Payment Methodology.
Have you downloaded the CMS PDGM Excel file from the CMS Home Health Agency Center?
The Role of Clinical Manager in a Medicare Home Health Agency
Clinical Manager oversees the care of patients, clinical staff and uses Evidence Base Practice (EBP) to improve patient outcomes and controls overutilization of services. The Home Health Quality Improvement Initiative provides free written and video educational materials based on EBP for clinicians and patients that can be use by the home health agency. Clinicians can utilize the information to provide consistent care that will lead to improve patient outcomes in targeted diseases as CHF, Diabetes, HTN, and Pneumonia.
Maintaining Educational Materials
Educational Materials for clinicians can be utilized for educational in-service which will help to meet accreditation bodies requirements and reduce education cost. Medication mismanagement is a very important issue for patients in the community, which according to the literature it one of the common causes of re-hospitalization. For more information visit FDA Click Here
