Healthcare DIVE September 9, 2024
Bill Charnetski, PointClickCare Executive Vice President of Health System Solutions & Government Affairs

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“Quality is Job 1.” That slogan, which Ford Motor Company used for decades, applies more than ever to healthcare.

That’s nothing new, of course. The federal government has been championing quality initiatives at least since the formation of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) in 1989. And 2015’s Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) tied clinician reimbursements directly to performance.

Now, after years of focus on quality improvement (QI) initiatives in acute care, there’s an increasing attention to QI in the skilled nursing facility (SNF) and senior living sectors. For example, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI, also known as the Innovation Center), has launched more than 50 different alternative payment...

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Topics: Govt Agencies, Payment Models, Provider, Value Based
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