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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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Care Coordination: The Key to Improving Patient Outcomes

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It involves communicating and collaborating with patients, their families, and their health care teams to ensure that the patient’s needs and preferences are met and that the best possible outcomes are achieved. Help patients navigate the complex healthcare system and access the services and resources they need.

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Home Health Referrals: Grow Your Network

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For Medicare claims, you already track care quality and report it to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Those quality ratings appear on Medicare’s Care Compare website and inform prospective clients how well you’re achieving positive outcomes. Improve Your Quality Ratings. Market Your Successes.

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Why Care Coordination Is Important for Home Health and Hospice Agencies

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Improved care quality and patient safety, reduced readmissions and ER visits, and lower healthcare costs are just some of the positive outcomes of effective care coordination. Under the first performance year of VBP in 2023, home health agencies will be scored in part on the patient’s perception of their communication and team discussion.”

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Home Health Agencies Face Growing Competition as Value-Based Purchasing Expands Nationally

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With the successes reaped during the pilot of the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) program, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) aims to accelerate the results nationwide. Communication. Meanwhile, patient outcomes improved in HHVBP states when compared to non-HHVBP states. million decrease. Toilet hygiene.

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10 Claim Denial Reasons Healthcare Organizations Should Monitor

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What’s the good news for healthcare revenue cycle managers? Processing claims is one of the top contributors to wasted healthcare dollars in the U.S., We communicate the change to the pharmacy team. Some Medicare Advantage plans are denying authorization for hospitalization.

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Importance of Image and Respect for Home Health Recruitment and Retention

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An unintended, but positive offshoot of the pandemic is that the crisis highlighted home health’s “very quick and successful adjustments” and “versatility” to serve COVID-19 patients and millions of others served under Medicare, Medicaid, Veterans Administration, and other services. Increased Compensation.