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Medicare Care Compare: Publicly reported performance measures

American Nurse

Takeaways: To help patients and their families make informed decisions about choosing health care, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) publicly reports quality performance measures. In addition to informing patients, public reporting can drive providers to improve performance.

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Telehealth: Navigating healthcare delivery in the new normalized space

American Nurse

Thomas and colleagues describe how clinicians across the globe mobilized or expanded available technology to maintain contact with patients, established new access, and explored uncharted methods of providing healthcare access for individuals in need. References Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. March 17, 2020.

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Starting A Practice: Questions Every Nurse Practitioner Should Ask

Nurse Practitioners in Business

Structuring the optimal service offering to meet your patients’ needs and your practice’s goals. Creating positive patient experiences, from scheduling appointments to follow-up care, to grow the practice.

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Dozens of Defendants Charged with Healthcare Fraud

American Medical Compliance

Many of these individuals targeted elderly patients who receive Medicare benefits. One of the illegal actions investigated was the bribing of laboratories in exchange for patient referrals. Often these tests would bear no useful results to the patient. What Happened? What is Being Done About it? course today.

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Advanced Continuous Blood Glucose Monitoring for Healthcare Professionals Training

American Medical Compliance

Limitations of Traditional Glucose Control Measures Traditional measures of glucose control, such as hemoglobin A1c (A1C), are widely used to assess long-term blood glucose levels, but they offer limited insight into the day-to-day fluctuations that patients experience.

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How to Keep Patients Satisfied — and Raise Your Patient Satisfaction Scores

Relias

Improving patient experience scores is a goal for many healthcare organizations — and for good reason. Patient experience is directly tied to patient retention, reimbursement, and in many cases, better patient outcomes. Does patient satisfaction equal better health outcomes?

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Maximizing Healthcare Reimbursement Through Higher Patient Satisfaction Scores

Relias

One effective way is to earn high patient satisfaction scores that demonstrate value to customers seeking a trusted healthcare partner. But gaining patient trust isn’t the only benefit of high patient satisfaction scores. Scores for each of these areas and others are calculated into a single, overall patient satisfaction rating.