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How Palliative Care Could Help Break the SNF-to-Hospital Cycle

Hospice News

As the study explains, nursing homes are incentivized to hospitalize residents eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid because those patients can later return to the nursing home with a higher-paying Medicare benefit before transitioning back to long-term care with lower Medicaid day rates.

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Understanding social determinants of health and rehab

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

Let’s begin with definitions. Now that we understand the definitions let’s look at what recent publications from our therapy organizations have to say about SDOH. At the root of all of this guidance, we see a consistent theme with the WHO definition of a person-centered approach. .

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Finding your PAC

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

Last week we as an industry saw RTI International release a report titled: CMS Report to Congress: Unified Payment for Medicare-Covered Post-Acute Care Analysis and Development of the Prototype Unified PAC Prospective Payment System Called for in the IMPACT Act. Is UPAC a new term to you? Let’s start with some background here.

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Achoo! Springtime is PEPPER season

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

Statistics in PEPPER are presented in tabular form and in graphs that depict the SNF’s target area percentages over time. The SNF PEPPER allows SNFs to compare their billing statistics with national, jurisdiction and state percentile values for each target area with reportable data for the most recent three fiscal years (Oct. 1 through Sept.

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Home for the holidays: What does it mean for your patients?

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

Home (ˈhōm) has many definitions: one’s place of residence; the social unit formed by a family living together a familiar or usual setting; congenial environment; the focus of one’s domestic attention; or a place of origin. Perhaps your patients’ traditions include wrapping presents, decorating a tree or lighting the menorah.

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3 Games to Make HIPAA Training More Fun

Caregiver Support Services

First, list six different HIPAA-oriented categories in a slideshow presentation, like this: The questions with lower values should be the easiest to answer. This memory-like game will challenge your team to match the standard cards with their definition. Write down the definition of each standard on separate cards.

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Voices: Exploring Today’s Hospice M&A Landscape with The Braff Group’s Mark Kulik

Hospice News

Hospice mirrored the bigger picture, and it definitely fell off. Our best information indicates that Agape Hospice Care did four, and St. Agencies are now dealing with a very fluid labor pool, competing with other types of providers like hospitals, home health agencies and long-term care providers.

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