a challenge to coordinate medical services and resulted in suboptimal treatment outcomes. Population health management helps care provider organizations overcome this barriers by improving patient satisfaction and reducing medical costs. Promoting Population Health With Value Based Purchasing To encourage the shift toward service quality, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has launched four initial value based programs: the Hospital Value Based Purchasing VM) or Physician
coverage for all Americans. The way we practice medicine today is far different from that of even 20 years ago. The delivery of medicine has in the past evolved along a fee-for-service model. Today there is a significant change from fee-for-service to payment based on quality received. This has been dubbed value-based purchasing. As this new remodel emerges finances will no longer be dominated by a system of volumes and productivity but will change to a system of preventative medicine and payment for quality
Market Summary Miracle Home Oxygen (MHO) has introduced their new home-based portable Oxygen Cylinder filling device, Miracle Home Oxygen Machine (MHOM), as disruptive technology designed to address significant structural challenges in the Home Oxygen market. Medicare reimbursements have begun to contract due to recent budget cuts, with additional drops widely expected. The current prevailing delivery method for Medical Equipment dealers to their home oxygen patients, regularly scheduled deliveries
as defined under this new law. It is then imperative to ensure all healthcare facilities has the staffing resources necessary to meet patient needs and satisfy new regulations. Strategic Healthcare Programs (SHP) are used by agencies, it is a web-based analytics and benchmarking
This law discusses nursing workforce problems in various ways. Home Health Care The Affordable Care Act provides a lump sum, up to 1.1 million dollars, as a grant to increase home visitations and care of patients by home health nurses and social workers to high-risk expectant mothers. This grant is to help reduce the mortality rate and improve outcomes for mothers and babies. Affordable Care Act also provides grants to run community-based clinics championed by advanced practice nurse practitioners that
Care Health initiatives attentions on the health outcomes of a group of patients; in the PCMH model, such groups of patients, known as panels, may be defined as patients assigned to a care team or provider. The basic characteristics of the PCMH model include physician-led, team-based practice; coordinated and integrated care within the PCMH and in the patient’s community; provision of safe, evidence-based, high-quality care; incorporation of health information technology and continuous quality improvement
This topic is important to me, because healthcare industry is ever-evolving, there are medical devices developed to help patients maintain their well-being at home and keep them out of hospital settings. Innovative technology is convenient for doctors and clinician to utilize, because there are some medical devices that assist the clinicians and surgeons. As a result, this makes the medical procedures safer and invasive and reduces patient recovery times. Furthermore, technology improves the overall
healthcare providers for better quality services and outcomes or reduce their payments if certain quality standards are unmet. This paper talks about the different reforms under PPACA, aimed at introducing payment variations based on quality of care such as, Hospital Value Based Purchasing (VBP) program, improvements to different quality reporting programs, payment adjustments for hospital acquired conditions (HAC), reduction of hospital readmission rates (HRRP), testing for
Business Plan Description A Home Health Agency (HHA) is an organization which provide a wide range of health care services including skilled nursing services, and other therapeutic services that can be given at home to people with special needs, allowing this people to stay in their homes (CMS, 2013). Today, Home Healthcare industry is facing by several threats affecting their survival, counting dwindle reimbursement rates, and increased non-compliance risk associated with additional documentation
b) Large variation exist in the per capita healthcare expenditure across the United States which can be attributed to difference in healthcare services provided due to absence of evidence based treatment. c) Overuse and misuse of healthcare services are proving to be costly, pervasive and causing harm to the patients. Stakeholder Analysis The triple aim of PPACA to promote accessible, high quality and cost efficient care involves large number