Optimizing Transitions
Agency for Aging Best Practices
The Aging Network is constantly evolving, innovating and achieving new heights of quality and service. n4a has gathered many of the recent best practices from our Network in one place, to make it easier for you to find inspiration and ideas from your peers.
Optimizing Transitions
Care Transitions Toolkit
The Alliance for Home Health Quality and Innovation is a national consortium of home health care providers and organizations. The Alliance is committed to conducting and sponsoring research and initiatives that demonstrate and enhance the value proposition that home health care…
Optimizing Transitions
The Care Transitions Program
The Alliance for Home Health Quality and Innovation is a national consortium of home health care providers and organizations. The Alliance is committed to conducting and sponsoring research and initiatives that demonstrate and enhance the value proposition that home health care…
Optimizing Transitions
Next Step in Care
Next Step in Care provides easy-to-use guides to help family caregivers and health care providers work closely together to plan and implement safe and smooth transitions for chronically or seriously ill patients.
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CMS Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Model 3 Overview
Under this model, Medicare continues to make fee-for-service (FFS) payments to providers and suppliers furnishing services to beneficiaries in Model 3 episodes.
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Post-Acute Care Payment Reform Demonstration: Final Report
This is the Final Report for the Post-Acute Care Payment Reform Demonstration (PAC-PRD), authorized by section 5008 of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, Public Law 109-171. The report has 12 sections, which are divided into four volumes.
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Ideas to Improve Performance in Orthopaedic Bundles
Here are 28 things to know about bundled payments in orthopedics, spine and ambulatory surgery centers: pros and cons, and where they’re headed.
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The Many Ways Orthopaedic Bundles Help Hospitals
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services finalized a payment model holding acute care hospitals accountable for the quality of care they deliver to Medicare patients for hip and knee replacement from surgery through recovery.
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The Future of Health and Care of Older People
The Debate of the Age was established by Age Concern, England to help promote an understanding of how changes in the structure of the population will affect everyone. The balance of the population is shifting, with fewer young people and more older people.
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Initiatives in Bundled Payments
The Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) initiative is comprised of four broadly defined models of care, which link payments for the multiple services beneficiaries receive during an episode of care.
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CMS Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Model 2 Overview
Under this payment model, Medicare continues to make fee-for-service (FFS) payments to providers and suppliers furnishing services to beneficiaries in Model 2 episodes.
Post-Acute Care
Bundling And Coordinated Post-Acute Care
Structured as a “toolkit,” the Bundling and Coordinating Post-Acute Care (BACPAC) analysis elucidates issues related to the structure, components, and attributes of post-acute care payment bundles and models the financial impact of various design parameters.
Post-Acute Care
INTERACT
INTERACT® is a quality improvement program that focuses on the management of acute change in resident condition. It includes clinical and educational tools and strategies for use in every day practice in long-term care facilities.
Post-Acute Care
Readmission Reduction Success
Hospitals around the country are being notified of their 30-day readmission penalties from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Many hospitals have come to dread the announcement of how much they are being penalized each year.
Post-Acute Care
INTERACT
INTERACT® is a quality improvement program that focuses on the management of acute change in resident condition. It includes clinical and educational tools and strategies for use in every day practice in long-term care facilities.
Post-Acute Care
Readmission Reduction Success
Hospitals around the country are being notified of their 30-day readmission penalties from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Many hospitals have come to dread the announcement of how much they are being penalized each year.
Community Resources
Agency for Aging Elder Services
Given the comprehensive scope of the work being undertaken by our members to serve older adults, people with disabilities and caregivers, this section is intended to offer a snapshot of the most common issues being tackled by the Aging Network today.
Community Resources
Partnership for Patients
The Partnership for Patients initiative is a public-private partnership working to improve the quality, safety and affordability of health care for all Americans. The Partnership for Patients aims to engage 100 percent of the nation’s acute care…