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News Topic: Quality improvement
Bi-Partisan Package: $65 Billion for Broadband
The $550 billion bi-partisan infrastructure agreement includes $65 billion to “bridge America’s digital divide and build a 21st century infrastructure that will meet our country’s […]
CMS Issues Non-Compliance Notices Related to SNF and Hospice Quality Reporting Programs
The non-compliance notices were distributed by the Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) and placed into SNF and Hospice providers CASPER folders in QIES on July 14, […]
New CAST Case Study Highlights Data Analytics
A new LeadingAge CAST case study shows how skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) can use data to improve short-term and long-term patients’ health outcomes, lower hospitalizations, […]
FY 2022 SNF PPS Proposed Rule Released
The FY 2022 Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Prospective Payment System (PPS) rule was posted on the Federal Register public inspection site on April 8. The rule […]
Healthcare Extenders In 2020 Year End Omnibus
Medicaid There are several positive policy updates amongst the provisions in the Medicaid extenders. Most notably, for LeadingAge and our members, are extensions of the […]
Hospice Quality Measures When Death Is Imminent
CMS plans to begin displaying the first measure—which covers the last three days of a hospice patient’s life—on Hospice Compare in summer 2019 but will […]
New Report Shows SNFs If They Are at Risk of a 2% Rate Penalty
The report shows SNFs if they are meeting the 80% reporting threshold requirement on the SNF QRP measures during a calendar year. Failure to meet this […]
Study Finds HIE Lowers Readmissions
Recent research found that hospitals with health information exchange (HIE) have fewer readmissions than do hospitals that are not part of HIE. This study looked […]
CAST Telehealth and RPM Selection Tool Updated
LeadingAge CAST has updated its Telehealth and RPM Selection Tool with new vendor information and a new case study from Curatess and Lexington Health Network. […]