Paper on Optimizing Medicare and Medicaid Payments Through Implementation of the CMS Age-Friendly Hospital Measure
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INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing has published a paper on "A Path to Better Care for Older Adults: Optimizing Medicare and Medicaid Payments Through Implementation of the CMS Age Friendly Hospital Measure". The paper reviews the CMS Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) Program, and how hospitals in the IQR program will avoid Medicare payment reductions by reporting on the 5 domains of the CMS Age-Friendly Hospital Measure.
5 domains of the CMS Age Friendly Hospital Measure:
1. Eliciting patient health care goals
2. Responsible medication management
3. Frailty screening and intervention
4. Social vulnerability
5. Age friendly care leadership
The paper explains how meeting these 5 domains is associated with providing higher-quality care for older adults, leading to improved outcomes and reduced costs. The paper also explains evidence-based initiatives that hospitals can implement to achieve the CMS Age-Friendly Hospital Measure.
Read the paper to learn more.
5 domains of the CMS Age Friendly Hospital Measure:
1. Eliciting patient health care goals
2. Responsible medication management
3. Frailty screening and intervention
4. Social vulnerability
5. Age friendly care leadership
The paper explains how meeting these 5 domains is associated with providing higher-quality care for older adults, leading to improved outcomes and reduced costs. The paper also explains evidence-based initiatives that hospitals can implement to achieve the CMS Age-Friendly Hospital Measure.
Read the paper to learn more.
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