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When the goal is to maintain

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

Based on this, the Medicare program covers such services, and coverage cannot be denied based on the absence of potential for improvement or restoration. Question: Are professional therapy services available under Medicare only for patients who are improving or who are expected to improve? Answer: No. Answer: No. Answer: Yes.

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Therapists, take note! Proposed changes to ICD-10 mapping

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is proposing several changes to the PDPM ICD-10 code mappings and lists. These are some positive steps to ensuring care and reimbursement align with patient needs, evidence-based practice and the unique level of skilled care you provide daily.

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Palliative Researcher Oliver: Family Caregivers Are Also Patients

Hospice News

That assumes that you have somebody at home who’s willing and able to take care of you. And if we don’t make that happen, those patients end up in the hospital or they end up in nursing homes. It is skilled care even when you have no skills, and you have no license, but you’re doing this 24 hours.

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