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Navigating Medicare Advantage: Strategies for Hospitals to Tackle Growing Challenges

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These include updates to the Star Ratings system, RADV (Risk Adjustment Data Validation) audits, the upcoming 2025 Final Rule containing the final rate announcements, and adjustments to prior authorization requirements. Say what you’re looking for and what the risk of discharge is in every single progress note.

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Why Care Coordination Is Important for Home Health and Hospice Agencies

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The HHCAHPS Survey will determine 30% of an agency’s total performance score, and that score will in turn determine the agency’s payment adjustment for 2025. Assessing communication and collaboration. As part of discharge planning. Patient perception of communication and team discussion are two of those five elements.

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

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Under the final rule released in November 2021, your agency will be able to receive payment adjustments of plus or minus 5% based on the TPS starting in 2025, which is derived from either achievement scores or improvement scores. Discharged to community. Determining payment adjustments. Management of oral medications.

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Writing Compelling Activity Descriptions to Boost Your Med School Application

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If you instead said that you “changed the sheets immediately after patients were discharged to ensure swift turnaround time and help meet patient care needs,” that demonstrates how you think ahead, take initiative, and support the work of the team and the hospital, as well as its patients. Why was this activity or experience important to you?