Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The October 2019 industry shift to the Patient Driven Payment Model allowed all rehabilitation professionals the opportunity to document specific clinical characteristics about the patients we serve and directly tie those areas to reimbursement. Renee Kinder. Quite the shift, right? Knowledge is key here. Let’s begin with some basics on PDPM.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

How did these codes, the ones we use daily for documentation and billing, come into existence? Healthcare providers, professional societies, medical device manufacturers or other stakeholders might recognize the absence of a CPT® code for a particular service, making documentation and reimbursement difficult. Have a column idea?

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

APRIL 27, 2023

PEPPER reports, on the other hand, shouldn’t be viewed as an additional nuisance and should provide useful data for the entire interdisciplinary team to review to assess trending and develop strategies for supplemental review of documentation. What Is PEPPER? Ready to download your reports?

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

As you read below, I also want you to consider: Does the care you provide daily evidence complexity in the interventions you use and the documentation you complete. CERTIFICATION is the physician’s/non-physician practitioner’s (NPP) approval of the plan of care. Now on to complexities. Now, on to intervention.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

OCTOBER 24, 2024

When investigating falls or other adverse events, teams can use RCA to dig deeper into why the incident happened rather than just documenting what occurred. 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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GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

Alex 00:48 And we’re delighted to welcome back Josh Briscoe, who’s a palliative care doc at the Durham VA Medical center in Duke and blogs at Notes from a Family Meeting. Alex 00:59 And finally, Theo Slomoff, who is a palliative care fellow at UCSF and is joining us as a guest host. Thaddeus 00:46 Thank you.

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Nurse.com

AUGUST 24, 2023

Mahoney, for instance, is documented as the first Black nurse to have earned a nursing degree. My first challenge was an interview with a dean who described my community in terms of its racial breakdown and said that at least I was “a step above the statistics” because I had a bachelor’s degree. Submit your story today!

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Nurse.com

OCTOBER 12, 2022

For example, one of the issues nursing informatics experts are looking into today is the burden of documentation — whether nurses are having to document too much information and how to optimize the process. The post Nursing Informatics: Vital to the Profession appeared first on Nurse.com Blog.

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Hope Hospice

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Hope Hospice offers a monthly Family Caregiver Education Series for just this purpose, and several of the classes are focused on dementia care. It is of the utmost importance that you review your legacy documents (such as a will/trust) while you are still well. Make a Care Plan. Get Your Affairs In Order. What is Sundowing?

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Many long-term care residents live in Missouri nursing homes for years. What documentation is required before sending the notice of discharge? If a facility determines that it must involuntarily discharge a resident, the facility must first determine the level of documentation required. 19 CSR 30-82.050(2)(A)-(F).

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Nurse.com

MARCH 14, 2023

In past blogs, I have written about the importance of your integrity and credibility when testifying in court. He also was reported to the state agency that protects long-term care residents. The post RN’s Credibility Questioned By State Court appeared first on Nurse.com Blog. The RN’s appeal was dismissed.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

MARCH 16, 2023

Therefore, evaluation, re-evaluation and assessment documented in the Progress Report should describe objective measurements which, when compared, show improvements in function, decrease in severity or rationalization for an optimistic outlook to justify continued treatment. She can be reached at rkinder@broadriverrehab.com.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

JANUARY 19, 2023

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. I was on top of the world with my newfound knowledge and understanding of why and how we are asked to code, document and support our services.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

And you wrote, actually, a beautiful GeriPal blog about it a while ago. Eric: Just for the aging population, what about long-term care? It’s not well-documented. So, I don’t think we should have these silos. What is it called? Cancer Pain, Non-Cancer Pain: A Distinction Without the Difference?

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

MAY 11, 2023

Since the initiation of PDPM in October of 2019, providers have been long awaiting medical review to assess the accuracy of interdisciplinary team documentation. The primary root cause of SNF errors was found to be missing documentation. What do rehab teams need to know? What is the main reason for errors? Ready, set, review.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

APRIL 13, 2023

Measure details: This measure assesses functional status by assessing the percentage of SNF residents who meet or exceed an expected discharge function score, and uses mobility and self-care items already collected on the Minimum Data Set (MDS). The time now engage more fully as an IDT in documentation and coding.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

MAY 26, 2022

Beginning in 2013, according to statutory language in “Section 6102” of the Affordable Care Act, SNFs are required to have a compliance program. As part of its compliance program, a SNF should conduct regular audits to ensure services provided are necessary and that charges for Medicare services are correctly documented and billed.

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Seasons Hospice

JUNE 24, 2024

Cost : Senior housing can be expensive, and costs vary widely depending on the type of community and the level of care provided. Evaluate the senior’s financial situation and explore potential funding sources, such as long-term care insurance, savings, and government programs.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

JANUARY 4, 2024

Generative AI tools are finding an increasing number of uses in healthcare, including assistance with administrative functions, such as generating office notes, responding to documentation requests, and generating patient messages. For further inquiries, she can be contacted at rkinder@broadriverrehab.com. Have a column idea?

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

JUNE 6, 2024

The plan of care shall contain, at minimum, the following information as required by regulation (42CFR424.24, 410.61, and 410.105(c) (for CORFs)). for further documentation requirements): • Diagnoses; • Long term treatment goals; and • Type, amount, duration and frequency of therapy services. Have a column idea?

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

JUNE 9, 2022

Ap·pen·dix — a section or table of additional matter at the end of a book or document. 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. Renee Kinder.

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Minority Nurse

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The program expanded to include long-term care facilities in 1998 and moved beyond the borders of the United States to an international Magnet movement in 2000 as the new century began. In 2002, a final name change to the Magnet Recognition Program was initiated, and here we are some 22 years later. .

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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. So, whatever we do, we document it and get reimbursed. I work in acute care, so I never see a reimbursement because the hospital sees the reimbursement.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Furthermore, culture, cultural awareness and cultural competence are collectively listed a total of 125 times in the 861 pages of the updated State Operations Manual Appendix PP -Guidance to Surveyors for Long Term Care Facilities, (Rev. Documentation should be comprehensive. 208, 10-21-22).

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

MARCH 30, 2023

As a rehab professional, is there anything more miserable than the gathering of stacks of documents and searching for records needed for pre-authorization? Awful scans, missing documents, and most importantly wasted time… I mean, we have patients to see, folks! No one, and I mean no one, has time for that. Stacks of papers be gone!

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Chapter 8 outlines coverage for skilled nursing facility care, including therapy services for Medicare Part A beneficiaries, while Chapter 15 provides guidance on medical and other health services, including rules for the long-term care population. Myth 5: Only registered therapists can document therapy progress.

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