MHA Today | May 25, 2022

Staff Contact: Jill Williams

MHA released its 2022 Workforce Report along with 10 region-specific reports. The data indicate that both turnover and vacancy rates, among all professions surveyed, reached an all-time high statewide. Vacancy and turnover rates in 2021 were near or above record levels before the pandemic and have exceeded the 2020 levels. COVID-19 has caused significant disruption in the health care workforce, making the long- and short-term challenges for care delivery and workforce sustainability considerably more pronounced.

The statewide report includes data from 128 Missouri hospitals and identifies trends among 28 hospital-based positions and four clinic and physician practice positions.

Staff Contact: Brian Kinkade

MHD created a dashboard with Missouri Medicaid managed care quality metrics. The dashboard provides statistics on HEDES measures, claims adjudication and CAHPS satisfaction scores for SFYs 2018, 2019 and/or 2020.

Staff Contact: Andrew Wheeler

CMS, through the CMMI, released results of the seventh year of the Independence at Home Demonstration model, which is designed to test a payment incentive and service delivery model for home-based primary care for Medicare FFS beneficiaries with multiple chronic illnesses.

The results for year seven — January to December 2020 — include expenditures that are 18% less than targets. In addition, all participants reduced the per-beneficiary-per-month expenditures, and 10 participants met the expenditure and quality requirements to receive incentive payments.

Staff Contact: Keri Barclay

The CDC recently issued a Health Alert noting the potential for the rebounding of COVID-19 symptoms in patients who utilize Paxlovid treatment. There was no change to the use case or EUA for the use of Paxlovid.