Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

What changes in FY 2023, you ask? On July 29, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a final rule that updates Medicare payment policies and rates for skilled nursing facilities under the Skilled Nursing Facility Prospective Payment System (SNF PPS) for fiscal year (FY) 2023. . • Two walking items.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

APRIL 11, 2024

And to this day I owe my ability to quote Medicare Benefit Policy Manual Chapter 15 Sections 220 and 230 to Liz. The opinions expressed in McKnight’s Long-Term Care News guest submissions are the author’s and are not necessarily those of McKnight’s Long-Term Care News or its editors.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

MAY 25, 2023

Wasn’t this already covered in Section 4113 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023? While Section 4113 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 (P.L. While Section 4113 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 (P.L. So why, you ask, was clarification needed?

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

MAY 11, 2023

The May 4, 2023, notice of Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) 5-Claim Probe and Educate Review , of course! Since the initiation of PDPM in October of 2019, providers have been long awaiting medical review to assess the accuracy of interdisciplinary team documentation. Effective date: June 5, 2023 Why is CMS going to be reviewing claims?

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Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2024

If you decide to pursue another opportunity, you may have massive exposure in terms of sustainability.” About 16% of the survey respondents indicated plans to start palliative care programs this year, a decline from 56% of respondents in 2023.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

APRIL 14, 2022

On April 11, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a proposed rule that would update Medicare payment policies and rates for skilled nursing facilities under the Skilled Nursing Facility Prospective Payment System for fiscal year 2023. . Renee Kinder. She can be reached at rkinder@broadriverrehab.com.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

MAY 12, 2022

The buzz around the proposed rule for fiscal 2023 continues as providers aim to review, digest and comment on proposed updates to the SNF payment rates, wage index adjustments, methodology for recalibrating PDPM parity adjustment, quality reporting and value-based purchasing updates, and multiple requests for information (RFIs). Renee Kinder.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

JANUARY 19, 2023

My boss at the time asked me to come prepared to review Medicare Benefit Policy Manual Chapter 15 – Covered Medical and Other Health Services. Not the company policies, or the human resource manuals, but the “gold standard,” as she put it, when it comes to understanding the rules of practice and documentation for Medicare.

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Minority Nurse

MARCH 29, 2023

She is committed to providing top-notch care to the communities served by VNS Health Choice MAP and MLTC, many of whom come from vulnerable backgrounds. Esther Conteh is an important nursing leader , and we’re pleased to profile her as part of the Champions of Nursing Diversity Series 2023. What is your title, and where do you work?

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Daily Nurse

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

We need to understand most nurses in acute care and long-term care settings now are novice nurses or nurses who have only been in the profession for a few years. You’ll get better reimbursement from Medicare, the big blues, and everybody else in insurance. You’ll get better patient outcomes.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Diane: Huge.

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AJN Off the Charts

OCTOBER 19, 2023

On Sep 6, 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a proposed rule for their widely anticipated minimum staffing requirements for long-term care facilities. The realities of today’s long-term care environment.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

This discussion took place on September 7, 2023 during the Hospice News ELEVATE Conference. This was presented back in Tampa at a post-acute long-term care conference earlier this year, where we looked at the ability of speech recognition to drive down Medicare denials of claims. This article is sponsored by nVoq.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

MARCH 30, 2023

In December of 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a proposed rule aimed at improving patient and provider access to health information and streamline processes related to prior authorization for medical items and services. urgent) requests and seven calendar days for standard (i.e., Stacks of papers be gone!

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Nurse.com

APRIL 22, 2023

Perhaps one of the most impacted was nursing homes and long-term care facilities. According to 2023 data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services website, more than 1.5 Post-COVID-19 focus No matter the setting, COVID-19 had an impact on hundreds of thousands of patients and healthcare professionals.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 27, 2023

I was working in home Health back when it was first introduced back in 2010, as a way for c m s to not only create structured penalties for hospitals with excessive readmissions, but also to reward and incentivize those providers for effective care coordination and collaboration with post-acute providers across the care continuum.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

AUGUST 4, 2022

Additionally, we received press releases related to CMS Acts to Improve the Safety and Quality of Care of the Nation’s Nursing Homes and CMS Seeks Public Feedback to Improve Medicare Advantage. Background: Nearly 140 million Americans (74 million for Medicaid, nearly 64 million for Medicare) benefit today from Medicaid and Medicare.

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