Contact: Patricia Simino Boyce (516) 209-5294 psboyce@ipro.org LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., Feb. 21, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Last week the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) awarded a contract to IPRO to help small practices in New York, Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia prepare for and participate in the new Quality Payment Program, established by the Medicare Access and CHIP… Continue Reading
IPRO to Support State Oversight of NY Adult Care Services
Contact: Patricia Simino Boyce (516) 209-5294 psboyce@ipro.org (Lake Success, NY) January 11, 2017 –– IPRO will be responsible for supporting State oversight of long-term, mostly nonmedical adult care residential services for New Yorkers unable to live independently, under a new contract with the New York State Department of Health’s Division of Assisted Living. Under New… Continue Reading
IPRO Wins Renewal of Key NY Hospital Work Hours Contract
Contact: Patricia Simino Boyce (516) 209-5294 psboyce@ipro.org LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., Dec. 1, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — IPRO has won renewal of an important New York contract that oversees hospitals’ compliance with critical physician-in-training work hour requirements. The contract with the New York State Department of Health—which IPRO has held since the compliance program’s inception in 2001—involves unannounced site visits, surveys, interviews and responsibility… Continue Reading
IPRO Wins Healthcare Payment Reform Application Challenge
Organization is One of Only Five Phase 1 Winners Nationwide Contact: Patricia Simino Boyce (516) 209-5294 psboyce@ipro.org (Lake Success, NY) October 11, 2016 –– IPRO is a winner of a Challenge prize that will support development of a prototype mobile application to help physicians report essential payment information to the U.S. Centers for Medicare &… Continue Reading
IPRO Joins Healthcare Payment Reform Campaign
Ambitious National Effort to Adopt Alternative Reimbursement Models Contact: Patricia Simino Boyce (516) 209-5294 psboyce@ipro.org (Lake Success, NY) August 24, 2016 –– IPRO has received special recognition from the Health Care Payment Learning & Action Network (LAN), a national public-private partnership aimed at adopting alternative payment models (APMs) that reduce costs and improve outcomes for… Continue Reading
IPRO Names Three 2016 New York Quality Award Winners – Outstanding Performance to be Recognized at June 7 Annual Meeting
Contact: Patricia Simino Boyce (516) 209-5294 psboyce@ipro.org (Lake Success, NY) May 19, 2016 –– An inner-city medical center, an upstate group practice and the nation’s largest public healthcare delivery systems are all winners of this year’s IPRO Quality Awards—to be announced at the organization’s 32nd Annual Meeting, to be held Tuesday June 7, 2016 at… Continue Reading
Unique Clinical Decision Support App And Online Tool Helps Clinicians Manage Anticoagulation Medications During Surgery
Contact: Patricia Simino Boyce (516) 209-5294 psboyce@ipro.org (Lake Success, NY) March 30, 2016 –– A new, freely-available smart phone application and online tool developed by an IPRO-led coalition enables clinicians to easily determine whether, when, and how to stop and restart the use of warfarin and oral anticoagulants during elective surgery and other invasive procedures…. Continue Reading
Quality Improvement Group to Address End-of-Life Care Planning on Long Island
Contact: Patricia Simino Boyce (516) 209-5294 psboyce@ipro.org (Lake Success, NY) January 19, 2016 –– IPRO, New York-based leader of the Atlantic Quality Improvement Network (AQIN), has received special funding from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for the “Transforming End-of-Life Care Initiative,” a two-year project that will help inform Medicare beneficiaries and healthcare… Continue Reading
IPRO Wins Four Regional Dialysis Quality Improvement Contracts
Contact: Patricia Simino Boyce (516) 209-5294 psboyce@ipro.org (Lake Success, NY) December 9, 2015 – IPRO has won four regional End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Network quality improvement contracts to support dialysis patients, families and providers in 13 states across the U.S. Last week the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), announced it was awarding… Continue Reading
NY Non-Profit Helps Hispanic/Latino Seniors Manage Diabetes
Contact: Patricia Simino Boyce (516) 209-5294 psboyce@ipro.org (Lake Success, NY) November 16, 2015 – The IPRO-led Atlantic Quality Innovation Network (AQIN), the Medicare-funded healthcare quality improvement organization for New York, is scoring major gains in enrolling Hispanic and Latino Medicare beneficiaries in free Everyone with Diabetes Counts (EDC) workshops in and around New York City…. Continue Reading