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How Much Time is Left for Impacting 2025 & 2026 CMS Star Rating Measures?

Hospital quality teams aspire to formulate plans that exert Impact over CMS Star Ratings, necessitating both short-term and long-term strategies. A sustainable, long-term game plan would likely encompass comprehensive, AI-driven simulations to comprehend the most effective path toward an enhanced star rating. Nevertheless, hospitals might also encounter pressure to yield results in the short term.

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Dexur is Your Compass to Maximize CMS VBP Payouts

Dexur specializes in helping healthcare professionals thrive in CMS Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Programs. With an array of solutions designed specifically for these programs, we have the tools you need to succeed.

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Elevate Your Leapfrog Safety Grades with Dexur

In an era where healthcare benchmarks have grown paramount, hospitals are constantly under the lens of programs like Leapfrog and CMS Quality Programs. Aiming to optimize patient care, hospitals often find themselves amidst overlapping benchmarks, potentially navigating them in silos. This can lead to inefficiencies, duplications, and missed opportunities. Enter Dexur: Your partner in seamlessly aligning these objectives, making the journey to excellence both precise and holistic.

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Integrate Patient Experience Analytics into Quality Programs

Every healthcare institution aims to provide the best possible patient experience, and it's more than just about satisfaction – it's about quality of care, safety, and overall hospital performance. The Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) score is a crucial metric in major quality programs such as CMS Star Rating, VBP and Leapfrog. Dexur offers the following solutions to help integrate your HCAHPs Patient Experience measures into larger quality programs.

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Dexur’s Software & Data Provides the Path to Lower Readmissions, HRRP Penalties and Mortalities

Dexur specializes in providing advanced healthcare solutions to tackle the critical issues of patient readmissions and mortalities. With our access to Out of Hospital Data as an approved purchaser of CMS Medicare claims data, we offer unparalleled insights that extend beyond the confines of hospital walls, allowing us to address the intricate dynamics between readmissions and mortalities.

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Enhance Patient Safety with Dexur’s Hospital Acquired Infections Solutions

At Dexur, where we prioritize patient safety by focusing on reducing Hospital Acquired Infections (HAIs) such as CLABSI, CAUTI, CDIFF, MRSA, and SSI. Our advanced analytics and AI-driven insights enable hospitals to understand, manage, and minimize HAIs, ensuring improved patient outcomes and enhanced CMS Star Ratings, VBP, Safety, HACRP, and Leapfrog scores.

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Dexur Is Your Partner To Help You Achieve Excellence in CMS Star Ratings

At Dexur, we understand the crucial role CMS Star Ratings play in establishing your hospital's reputation for quality care. We specialize in optimizing your performance in the essential domains of Readmissions, Mortality, Safety, Patient Experience, and Timely and Effective Care. Our suite of solutions is tailored to ensure your CMS Star Ratings reflect the excellence of your services, thereby positively influencing other quality measures like HRRP, Leapfrog, VBP, and MSPB.

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Leveraging Dexur’s Solutions, Payors and Hospitals Collaborate to Elevate Healthcare Quality

Dexur’s is the most innovative platform for Hospital and Healthcare quality excellence. For Quality and Clinical Improvement teams within Payor organizations, exur’s offerings can be harnessed to improve quality in participating hospitals. Dexur’s solutions can drive transformative changes in hospital quality through a payor’s lens.

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9 Ways Hospital Quality Teams Go Astray With Internal Dashboards and Tracking

Introduction: Hospitals rely on internal quality dashboards to track various measures aimed at improvement in CMS Star Ratings, VBP, Leapfrog, HRRP, HACRP, and other programs. However, despite these efforts, several inherent challenges in the current systems can lead hospitals astray. Dexur offers an innovative solution by combining internal data with its proprietary data and utilizing best-in-class scoreboard tracking algorithms, thereby presenting a more comprehensive and true picture of hospital quality.

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Medicare Spending per Beneficiary (MSPB) 101: What is it? What is Included? And How is it Calculated?

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The Medicare Spending per Beneficiary MSPB measure is designed to assess the average spending per Medicare beneficiary, which is indicative of the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of a hospital or healthcare provider. By evaluating the total cost of services rendered during an MSPB episode, which includes the inpatient stay, 3 Days before the Inpatient Stay and the 30 days following discharge, CMS aims to identify variations in spending, incentivize cost reduction, and promote high-quality care.

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Southern California Hospitals to Reap Benefits in Quality Excellence from HASC-Dexur Partnership

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Hospital Association of Southern California (HASC) and Dexur have recently come together in a promising partnership aimed at amplifying healthcare quality excellence. Dexur, bring an innovative data, software, and artificial intelligence (AI) platform, focusing on Healthcare quality excellence. With solutions leveraging data directly from CMS Medicare, advanced algorithms, and cutting-edge AI-driven technology, Dexur has been instrumental in aiding hospitals and healthcare organizations to enhance their performance metrics and quality outcomes.

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8 Reasons Hospital CMOs, CNO & Quality Teams Struggle to Manage CMS Star Ratings, Leapfrog, HRRP, VBP, HACRP and Other Quality Programs

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The article outlines eight challenges faced by CMOs, CNOs, and Quality Teams in managing hospital Quality Programs. Hospitals often grapple with unpredicted program score changes due to complex scoring mechanisms. Moreover, they struggle to pinpoint improvement strategies from myriad possible measures, find it hard to set and track progress towards goals, and remain uncertain about intervention efficacy. Additionally, the lack of access to out-of-hospital data, the rapidly changing nature of program measures, a slim margin for error in data approximations, and the inability to invest in advanced quality improvement technologies further complicate their endeavors to enhance care quality.

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Dexur's AI Risk Factor Identification: Automatically See What Impacts Your Outcomes

Healthcare organizations constantly endeavor to improve patient outcomes such as readmissions, mortalities, patient experience, and safety. Identifying risk factors that could impact quality outcomes is essential for enhancing hospital performance. Dexur's AI approach, which automatically identifies risk factors influencing your quality outcomes, represents a significant leap in its potential impact on quality measures.

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How To Integrate Your Leapfrog and CMS Star Rating, VBP and HACRP Quality Improvement Initiatives

Quality and safety measures have long been at the forefront of healthcare, ensuring that hospitals provide optimal care to their patients. Two significant entities, The Leapfrog Group and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), have instituted multiple programs to monitor and assess these measures. Though these programs have several overlapping measures, hospitals often tackle them individually, leading to potential inefficiencies. Dexur's innovative approach, using AI simulations and calculators, offers a consolidated strategy for hospitals to improve upon these common measures.

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Harnessing AI for Early Warning Alerts in Hospital Quality Metrics

Every day, hospitals and healthcare systems grapple with hundreds of quality measures that impact critical quality programs like CMS Star Rating, VBP, HRRP, and Leapfrog. These measures, encompassing everything from mortality and readmission rates to HCAHPS Patient experience measures, are pivotal in determining patient care strategies, upholding hospital reputation, and clinching significant financial incentives.

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20-40% of Deaths for CMS Pneumonia, HF, AMI and COPD 30 Day Mortality Measures have an Hospice Interaction

CMS Mortality measures are a critical part of CMS Star Ratings (~22% of overall weightage) and VBP (~25% of Weightage). Within the CMS Mortality measures, Pneumonia, HF, AMI and COPD are the most common measures in Mortality. A big gap while Hospitals try to measure 30 Day mortality is that Hospitals are blind to what happens outside their walls and nearly 60% of deaths are outside the Index Stay. Since, Dexur is an approved purchaser of Medicare Claims data, we can provide insights into what happens out of the Index stay and how what percentage of patient deaths can be potentially impacted.

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Dr. Alexander S. Mclawhorn is a top-ranked physician with most experience for Hip & Knee Replacement in United States

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Dr.Alexander S. Mclawhorn is a top-ranked Physician with most experience for Hip & Knee Replacement in the United States according to Dexur’s analysis of Patient volumes. Research suggests that patient case volume and experience is positively correlated with better quality outcomes. Dexur is an approved purchaser of CMS claims data and the leading Quality Excellence platform for healthcare providers in the US. Dexur's data is trusted by healthcare leaders, media and top academic institutions such as Harvard.

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Dexur’s Free CMS Star Rating Measures, Time Periods, Time Lags and Methodology Poster

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The Hospital CMS Star Ratings, designed to measure the quality of healthcare institutions, often presents hospitals with the challenging task of comprehending its intricate methodologies, encompassing performance periods, time lags, and specific weightages of different measures. Dexur, recognizing the complexity of these ratings, has identified that a significant portion of their interactions with hospitals revolves around elucidating these aspects. The need for clarity becomes particularly pronounced when considering that various teams within hospitals - from top-tier executives like the CEO, COO, CMO, CQO, and CNO to the Quality Departments - often have divergent understandings of how the Star Ratings function.

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Dexur’s 2024 CMS Star Rating Guidance in August 2023 is now available

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Dexur’s 2024 Star Rating August 2023 Guidance is now available for hospitals and healthcare providers to review. Dexur has a 98% accuracy rate for its predictions in February. Our guidances, based on partial data, are less accurate but are still very useful to understand directionality, strengths, weaknesses and opportunities. Dexur customers may have a different guidance than what is shared below because they may have provided additional data to use in our guidance model.

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The #1 Question That CMOs, CNOs, and Quality Teams Struggle to Answer: Is Your Quality Intervention Working?

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In the vast expanse of the healthcare landscape, where patient care and hospital reputation are inextricably linked, hospitals frequently deploy a myriad of quality improvement initiatives, interventions, and actions. The goal is clear: to enhance the quality of care and ensure that patients receive the best possible treatment outcomes. However, there’s an underlining challenge that Chief Medical Officers (CMOs), Chief Nursing Officers (CNOs), and Quality Teams often grapple with — How do we know if these interventions are genuinely working?

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