Population Health
The message is clear: Nurses and physicians should treat asymptomatic patients as carefully as symptomatic patients.
Finding ways to connect meaningfully with patients is almost as important as those patients finding ways to connect with each other.
The need for these services has increased as community measures to slow transmission of COVID-19 has closed meal sites.
This is concerning for providers, whose reimbursement is increasingly tied to the 30-day readmissions metric.
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More robust SDOH data is not only a care quality consideration, but a business consideration as payers, providers seek a whole-person view.
It's granting exceptions and extensions from reporting requirements for clinicians and providers participating in Medicare programs such as MIPS and Shared Savings Program ACOs.
Epidemiologists have identified those with chronic medical conditions as one of the key groups at risk of poor outcomes from the coronavirus.
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At the same time, 64% say they could not afford to pay out their full annual deductible if hospitalized for treatment of the coronavirus.