The vital work of protecting vulnerable populations often takes collaboration. Healthcare Management Solutions, LLC (HMS) has many years of experience serving as both a prime and subcontractor. We’re interested in selectively and strategically partnering with other companies that embrace our values, that complement our capabilities, and that share our passion for improving quality of care and IT efficiency for our clients and their end-users.
Welcome to the Healthcare Management Solutions, LLC (HMS) blog, which features posts on a helpful array of topics, from infection control and healthcare surveys to veterans healthcare, and healthcare tips, plus other tips for health and wellness.
Healthcare quality is just an abstract concept to anyone who hasn’t had a loved one — or spent time themselves receiving care — in a nursing home or other healthcare facility. Then, quality becomes personal.
Vulnerable people in long-term-care and other facilities around the U.S. need someone to look out for them. If you value the opportunity to do important work ensuring that nursing home residents and patients are being properly cared for, consider being a surveyor at Healthcare Management Solutions, LLC (HMS).
Falling poses a huge risk for seniors and other vulnerable populations. Yet, of the one in four people aged 65+ who fall each year, less than half report it to their doctor.
As the Association of Health Facility Survey Agencies (AHFSA) returns to in-person events, Healthcare Management Solutions, LLC (HMS) will be the Platinum Sponsor at the AHFSA 2021 Annual Conference in Chicago, September 27–29, which provides a valuable opportunity to show how our expertise is helping state agencies cope with today’s unprecedented crises.
To celebrate our 19 years in business and live our commitment to protecting vulnerable populations, Healthcare Management Solutions, LLC, (HMS) donated $1,900 to the nonprofit Connecting Link, Inc.
Since our founding in 2002, Healthcare Management Solutions, LLC (HMS) has sought to live up to both the letter and the spirit of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
One of the ongoing hallmarks of the Affordable Care Act is its commitment to innovation in finding new ways to deliver quality care more efficiently. Toward that end, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) developed several types of Alternative Payment Models (APMs), which use added incentive payments to provide high-quality and cost-efficient care for a specific clinical condition, a care episode, or a population.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the global population of people over 60 years old will more than double, from 900 million in 2015 to about 2 billion in 2050.
Healthcare Management Solutions (HMS) was recently awarded two South Carolina state contracts with the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC). Through the contracts, we will assist South Carolina with vital surveys in long-term care and non-long-term care facilities and also help the state establish new inspection systems and processes.
From changes in the regulatory environment to state workload fluctuations and staff turnover, state survey agencies face numerous challenges as they manage survey programs and balance state and federal obligations.
Public health plays a vital role in keeping our communities safe and healthy. The discipline of public health was created many years ago to prevent the spread of disease.
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Offices of Hearings and Inquiries handle a plethora of exceptions or issues facing Medicare beneficiaries, including managing and providing oversight to the identification and correction of data discrepancies in Medicare enrollment, direct and third-party billing, Medicare Advantage, and Part D transaction exceptions, screening complex casework for verification, and coordinating disposition, among many others.
