EHRs and the patient event notification CoP: filling the post-acute gap
CMS’s patient event notification Condition of Participation (CoP), which goes into effect May 1, 2021, requires all hospitals with an EHR to send electronic patient notifications for patient admissions, discharges and transfers to post-acute providers and suppliers, primary care providers and physicians. While hospitals often rely on their EHR to support regulatory updates, reaching post-acute […]
Complying with CMS’s patient event notification CoP: common pitfalls to avoid
Hospitals must comply with CMS’s patient event notification Condition of Participation (CoP) by April 30, 2021. The CoP requires all hospitals with an EHR – including critical access and psychiatric hospitals – to send electronic patient notifications for patient admissions, discharges and transfers to primary care providers, physicians and post-acute providers and suppliers. With less […]
Take Six with Cathy O’Brien, Software Engineer
You’ve been with CarePort for nearly a year. Congratulations! What drew you to the company? The timing was just perfect! When I first started looking for my next role, I found that CarePort was looking for a software engineer with a focus on the front-end, or user interface (UI) side, of the stack as part […]
Leveraging technology to power improved outcomes in acute and post-acute care
Recently, Samir D’Sa, General Manager of Landmark Health’s New York City office joined CarePort CEO and founder Lissy Hu, WellSky CEO Bill Miller, and WellSky CMO Shoma Sarkar Thomas on a panel at Home Health Care News’ Capital + Strategy Summit. Landmark Health, a CarePort customer, is a risk-based provider group that offers in-home primary and […]
CMS’s measures freeze: don’t get left out in the cold
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) announced a temporary freeze to Five-Star Domains in March. CMS made the decision to hold survey data – and freeze measures and ratings across the Five-Star Domain spectrum – to allow nursing homes to focus their full attention on the safety of […]
Exploring post-acute authorization
What is post-acute authorization? Post-acute authorization, also known as prior authorization for post-acute care, requires that information from both the organization actively managing the patient’s care – as well as the organization that will take over the patient’s care – is sent to the payer or convener, who then either approves or denies the patient’s […]
Take Six with Lane Bandanza, Partnership Analyst
Tell us more about your role at CarePort. I joined CarePort this past May as a Partnership Analyst on the Implementation team. I started my role completely remote due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has been a very interesting experience. I was greeted very warmly by everyone on the team and they did an incredible job […]
The Cleveland Clinic: leveraging CarePort to achieve BPCI-A success
Identifying, tracking and managing patients affiliated with bundled payment episodes is the only way to succeed under BPCI programs, but doing so is difficult and time-consuming without the right data and tools. CarePort recently hosted a webinar with the Cleveland Clinic to discuss challenges they faced when using only their EHR for bundles management – and […]
Navigating CMS’s patient event notification CoP requirements
Since CMS finalized new patient event notification Conditions of Participation (CoPs) – as part of the Interoperability and Patient Access final rule – in early March, we have broken down several aspects of the CoPs to help hospitals better understand what is required to comply by the May 1, 2021 deadline. Below, we revisit some […]
Improving communication between providers for optimized Medicare beneficiary outcomes
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, one in four adults in the US, and three in four adults aged 65 and older, have multiple chronic conditions. Further, CMS found that in 2014, 30.1% of Medicare beneficiaries had two or three chronic conditions, 20.9% had four or five chronic conditions and 14.5% had […]
How health plans can achieve reduced readmissions using CarePort
Reducing readmissions is a key driver of health plan costs and profits, and significantly impacts performance under the Medicare Advantage Star Ratings program. On average, 25% to 35% of Medicare beneficiaries are hospitalized every year, and approximately eight percent of these patients are readmitted within 30 days. These unplanned hospital readmissions increase healthcare costs – […]
HEDIS Transitions of Care measure: How CarePort Can Help Health Plans
In February, CMS’s 2021 Medicare Advantage and Part D Advance Notice (Part II) outlined proposed changes to the Medicare program for Measurement Year (MY) 2022, including modifications to the Medicare Advantage Star Ratings program and the addition of the HEDIS (Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set) Transitions of Care (TRC) measure from the National Committee for Quality […]
