Avalere’s Nutrition Experts Featured in Latest Health Affairs Blog Post

Summary

On January 24, Avalere’s Christina Badaracco and Senior Advisor Wendy Everett published a piece in the Health Affairs blog highlighting the need to improve malnutrition care and provide possible pathways to a solution.

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In recent years, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has created new standards to incentive patient care coordination and to hold healthcare facilities accountable for post-hospitalization patient outcomes. These new regulations stress the importance of high-quality care coordination for individuals who are transitioning across care settings, requiring providers to document nutrition interventions for those who are at high risk. Additionally, CMS has made a request for information on new measures that focus on addressing nutritional status, stating the connection between nutrition and outcomes.

“From Hospital to Home: Why Nutrition Counts” features the following:

Data about the current state of malnutrition care
Research findings from interviews that were conducted to better understand the continuity of nutrition care across care settings
Information about national initiatives aimed at addressing malnutrition, including the Malnutrition Quality Improvement Initiative and relevant policies
Five recommendations for providing optimal nutrition care to patients after hospital discharge

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