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Care Coordination: The Key to Improving Patient Outcomes

Relias

What is care coordination? Coordination of care is the process of organizing and integrating health care services for patients across care settings and providers. It can involve prenatal care, labor and delivery care, postpartum care, newborn care, family planning, and maternal and infant health services.

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Why Care Coordination Is Important for Home Health and Hospice Agencies

Relias

A well-designed care coordination process benefits patients, providers, and payer organizations. 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. Care coordination under HHVBP.

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Beyond EHRs: What Is “Meaningful Use” and How Can It Help Your Facility?

Scrubs

As part of this effort, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) launched a program to incentivize healthcare professionals to adopt the latest technology – namely, electronic health records (EHRs). Providers can also reduce certain Medicare/Medicaid fees by participating in the program.

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Caring for Medically Complex Children Takes a Village

Nurse.com

In this model, nurses provide not only care but also coordination of care and can develop patient-focused care plans, which is necessary to keep everything running smoothly, according to Whitfield. Another nurse and I were the daytime care coordinators,” Whitfield said. Children’s hospitals in the U.S.

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How to Make the Best of Your Health Insurance

Nurses Advocates

Medicare and Medicaid. The other safety net policy is Medicare. Medicare provides health insurance for those over 65, those who are disabled, and those with chronic kidney disease and a few other conditions. They work in many areas, including addressing insurance challenges and care coordination.

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Understanding FWA Compliance in Healthcare

American Medical Compliance

Furthermore, it prohibits knowingly submitting false or false claims to Medicare, Medicaid, or other federally funded healthcare programs. While EHRs offer numerous benefits, including improved documentation and care coordination, they also introduce complexities and potential vulnerabilities.

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Preventing hospital-acquired pressure injuries

American Nurse

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality estimates that individual care for patients with HAPI can cost an organization $20,900 to $151,700. Medicare estimates that each pressure injury adds $43,180 to a hospital stay. Casia Tomlinson is a wound care coordinator at Glens Falls Hospital in Glens Falls, New York.