Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

MARCH 14, 2024

Today, I would like for us all to consider not merely the importance of documenting daily skilled care but also the reason for referral and the need for initiating services in the first place. No specific medical event reported by nursing.” If you didn’t document it, it didn’t happen. Have a column idea?

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

MARCH 16, 2023

Answer: Since maintenance services are considered skilled care, the patient must meet the setting-specific qualifying criteria outlined in the law, regulations, and Medicare Benefit Policy Manual. Maintenance therapy and the allowances for rehab professionals gained a greater appreciation following the Jimmo versus Sebelius settlement.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

MAY 12, 2022

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. In closing, changes are coming. She can be reached at rkinder@broadriverrehab.com.

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Comfort Home Care

MARCH 29, 2022

Personal care : Help with activities of daily living (ADLs) such as bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, housekeeping, laundry, meal prep, and help with eating. Skilled care: As the disease progresses, many times patients need skilled nursing care to perform wound care, physical therapy, injections, and/or the administration of drugs.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

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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