Relias

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Limited access to training and education. The State of Medicaid Programs and the Need for Grassroots Advocacy. Commercial insurance and private pay revenue sources rarely cover services for people with IDD, leaving Medicaid as essentially the sole payer for these services. In our 2021 survey, 65.8%

Medicaid

Consult QD

MAY 16, 2023

A new policy from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) vastly expands coverage for continuous glucose monitoring (CGM), putting better type 2 diabetes management within reach for millions more patients. In Ohio, Medicaid recently started covering CGM for all people with diabetes, regardless of what medications they take.

Medicaid

Relias

APRIL 18, 2022

Specialized wound care education reaps financial and human rewards that can give you a trackable return on investment. Financial rewards of wound care education flow outward from the human benefits. And your wound care education investment can help in all those areas. Results of Your Wound Care Education Investment.

Education

Relias

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Home health agencies also need to ensure their care teams have adequate education to fill knowledge gaps in the start of care process, she said. To ensure compliance, Vance advises home health therapists and leaders to go to the source of the rules, the Federal Record.

Medicare

American Nurse

JUNE 5, 2023

DME = durable medical equipment, OT = occupational therapy, PT = physical therapy Between November 1, 2020, to May 31, 2021, 1,788 patients were discharged from the unit (1,552 discharged home and 236 discharged to a facility). It required continuing education and reinforcement with the staff. December 1, 2021. 2019;19(1):935.

Medicare

American Nurse

JULY 2, 2024

Sherri Mack Nurses are becoming an increasingly important part of the movement to educate patients, other healthcare providers, and the public about cannabis use. Cannabis nursing, a specialty nursing practice focused on providing education and guidance to healthcare consumers on the therapeutic use of cannabis, furthers this effort.

Business

American Nurse

JUNE 3, 2024

Educate nurses and all other healthcare providers to ensure they have a basic understanding of ASD, have familiarity with intervention options, and can provide family-centered and patient-centered care. The EBP project team is integrating this education into nursing orientation materials and organization-level annual employee education.

Communication

Council of Public Health Nursing Organizations

MARCH 8, 2024

To increase access to healthcare in rural areas and to respond to the hospital closures, in 2021 congress passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act ( Public Law 116-260 ). Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. She has a passion for building working teams to address community and educational needs. Government.

Medicaid

Capitol Beat

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

State and federal waivers that have been active for almost three years have allowed Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) to practice to the full extent of their education and clinical training. Readers of this blog know the importance of the PHE waivers for healthcare providers. Nurse Advocates stand with Rep.

APRN

American Nurse

JULY 5, 2023

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) provides federal oversight of care quality in all U.S. hospitals that receive Medi­care and Medicaid funding. Hospitals that accept patients with Medicare or Medicaid insurance (approximately 61.4 Doi: 10.51256/ANJ072339 Reference Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Medicaid

American Nurse

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Using an “all teach, all learn” approach, Project ECHO offers interactive education, peer-to-peer learning, case co-management, and collaborative problem-solving. Project ECHO’s “All teach, all learn” approach has four primary elements: interactive education, peer-to-peer learning, case co-management, and collaborative problem-solving.

Long Term Care

Health Leaders | Nursing

OCTOBER 16, 2024

He joined the health system in 2021 as executive vice president for physician enterprise, where he oversaw physician and advanced practice provider employment and alignment models with accountability for advancing clinical integration and population health management. We educate our clinicians about it. We have internal grand rounds.

Patient Satisfaction

American Nurse

MARCH 6, 2024

They then provided telephonic education to those patients about polypharmacy, the benefits of a pharmacist-led medication review, and the AWC web application. Improve care, promote the profession Nurses play a key role in patient education, medication management, and prevention of negative health outcomes. 2021; 16(5):e0252151.

Telemedicine

American Nurse

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Another significant area that rehab nurses focus on is education, educating not only the patient but the caregiver or family member as well. Education can be formal or informal, depending on the complexity of the patient’s needs. The more education a patient and his support system receive, the better the patient’s outcome.

Medicaid

Relias

JANUARY 11, 2023

But momentum will continue, since the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced in 2021 that it plans to transition fully to value-based reimbursement by 2030. By 2005, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) began piloting value-based care programs that linked payment to quality measures.

Medicare

Relias

DECEMBER 8, 2022

But there is a particular educational tool that tends to fall under the radar of many healthcare organizations. Every year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) releases the Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER). We all love free tools that help our organizations perform better.

Medicare

Relias

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

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. You may focus on education, additional certifications, or more in-depth chart reviews. million decrease. Preparing for the change.

Medicare

Minority Nurse

MARCH 19, 2024

The United States Government Accountability Office reported a 15-fold increase over the prepandemic level in telehealth use among Medicaid beneficiaries. million from March 2020 to February 2021. Numbers skyrocketed from 2.1 million in the year before the pandemic to 32.5 Teresa Rincon, PhD, RN, FCCM, is a pioneer in virtual nursing.

Chief Nursing Officer

Relias

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The increased pressure of the COVID-19 pandemic has presented never-before-seen growth opportunities for home health agencies and their workforce, as Bill Dombi, President of the National Association of Home Care and Hospice (NAHC), noted in a December 2021 webinar titled The State of Home Health. Professional Development and Education.

Professional Development

Relias

JUNE 1, 2022

Spectrum Health’s Clinical Documentation Integrity (CDI) team educates providers to bridge knowledge gaps. They were educated in the rules and regulations of coding. Many providers were noncompliant with 2021 E/M coding documentation guidelines. Above all, it’s vital to educate your staff on accurate medical coding.

Retirement

Relias

JUNE 1, 2022

Spectrum Health’s Clinical Documentation Integrity (CDI) team educates providers to bridge knowledge gaps. They were educated in the rules and regulations of coding. Many providers were noncompliant with 2021 E/M coding documentation guidelines. Above all, it’s vital to educate your staff on accurate medical coding.

Retirement

Capitol Beat

MARCH 15, 2022

Nursing Title VIII Nursing Workforce Development programs received $280.472 million, which is a $16 million increase over Fiscal Year 2021. RN Shortage – The bill includes $4.750 million within the Nurse Education, Practice, Quality, and Retention to address the shortage of RNs. Agencies Health and Human Services : $108.3

Medicare

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Alternatively, telehealth describes other related remote services, such as administration, ongoing medical education and training for healthcare providers. 1 Individuals covered by Medicaid (28.3%) and Medicare (26.8%), those who are Black (26.1%) and those earning less than $25,000 (26.4%) have the highest rates of telehealth visits.

Telemedicine

American Nurse

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The oral care plan should meet oral care standards and educate about various methods, safety measures, and the use of assistive devices to facilitate self-care hygiene. This allows the dentist or dental hygienist to recommend and educate the patient on the importance of using fluoride toothpaste. Joseph et al.

Medicare

American Nurse

APRIL 2, 2024

Influential efforts such as the 2021 National Academy of Medicine report, Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity, and the Department of Health and Human Services Healthy People 2030 initiative prioritized SDOH. The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare the effects of social determinants of health (SDOH).

Health Insurance

Consult QD

JUNE 16, 2023

Many laboratories have alternative options for low-cost or no-cost testing that do not involve a third-party sponsor and have financial assistance programs (based on a sliding income-based scale) and laboratory billing policies (such as no balance-billing for those with Medicaid). Front Neurol 2021; 12:663911. Suther S, Kiros G-E.

Pharmaceutical

Health Leaders | Nursing

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

of full-time NPs seeing Medicare patients and 82% seeing Medicaid patients. NPs are well positioned for primary care roles because of their education and training, says Reisinger, who has helped obtain an advanced educational nursing workforce grant centered on educating nurse practitioners for rural practice.

Medicare

Consult QD

APRIL 6, 2023

In 2020, the society launched the Healthcare Disparities Taskforce to better understand the role of social injustice within the discipline, promote cultural competency, provide education to clinicians and facilitate research into social determinants and outcomes. Dr. Amdani is a taskforce member in this initiative.

Medicaid

American Nurse

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Despite the evils of the pandemic, one important change was the expansion of private insurance reimbursement for telehealth services as well as Medicare and Medicaid expansion to reduce previously prohibitive barriers of telehealth services. References Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. March 17, 2020. link] Zemlak, J.

Medicare

Minority Nurse

JANUARY 27, 2023

Defining FPA “Full practice authority is essentially that the nurse practitioner can practice to the full extent of their education and training,” says April N. Nurse practitioners are trained to evaluate patients, make diagnoses, order and interpret tests, prescribe medications, coordinate care, and educate.

Nurse Practitioner

Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

“Full practice authority is essentially that the nurse practitioner can practice to the full extent of their education and training,” says April N. Nurse practitioners are trained to evaluate patients, make diagnoses, order and interpret tests, prescribe medications, coordinate care, and educate. Maintaining Momentum.

Nurse Practitioner

Scrubs

JUNE 22, 2023

Non-Hispanic Black women — regardless of income or education level — die at nearly three times the rate of non-Hispanic white women. According to a 2021 analysis of federal data, Black women living in rural areas also are more likely to die or experience more severe health complications during delivery than white women living in rural areas.

Medicaid

American Nurse

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The tool also is recommended by the American Diabetes Association in partnership with the AHA for the Know Diabetes by Heart™ program, which guides nursing and provider collaboration for patient education, improved self-management, and early treatment recommendations. See Risk assessment tools.)

Health Literacy

American Nurse

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Primarily a rural state, Missouri has ten rural counties with the highest rates of maternal morbidity (Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, 2021; The Missouri Pregnancy-Associated Mortality Review, 2018). The second federal policy is Medicaid Postpartum Coverage Extension (passed in Missouri 7/2023).

Medicaid

Scrubs

JUNE 15, 2023

Htwe, 38, is from Myanmar and worked as an OB-GYN there until a military coup overthrew the government in February 2021. Long wait times for dental appointments, high costs, and finding dentists willing to take new Medicaid patients make access to dental care difficult. Refugees in the U.S. that provide extensive coverage.

Medicaid

Scrubs

MARCH 29, 2023

Over 106,000 people died of drug-related overdoses in 2021 alone, according to the National Institute of Health. Narcan is currently free to anyone on Medicaid or private insurance. The move is aimed to increase the availability of the drug at a time when opioid-related deaths remain high across the U.S.

Medicaid

American Nurse

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Takeaways: The 1990 Federal Patient Self Determination Act requires that Medicare- and Medicaid-funded healthcare organizations follow state laws related to advance directives. The act requires that Medicare- and Medicaid-funded healthcare organizations, such as hospitals and nursing homes, follow state laws related to advance directives.

Self-Care