Hospice News

APRIL 10, 2023

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. Again, financial documentation is essential because buyers have to prove the revenues, the cash and the profits.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

JANUARY 19, 2023

The times I almost passed on during presentations due to nerves. 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. All this time I was confused with the term skill being associated with Medicare Part A.

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Caregiver Support Services

JULY 29, 2024

Take the Stress Out of Document Storage From insurance information to receipts, these days we’re surrounded by more important paperwork than ever, and it can quickly become overwhelming – especially when something gets lost! For starters, find out how to scan a document and save it as a PDF.

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Caregiver Support Services

JULY 21, 2024

Take the Stress Out of Document Storage From insurance information to receipts, these days we’re surrounded by more important paperwork than ever, and it can quickly become overwhelming – especially when something gets lost! For starters, find out how to scan a document and save it as a PDF.

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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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GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

He wrote a book titled “ Psychiatric consultation in long term care ” that has a strengths based approach to staging dementia (how cool is that). Judy Long, MDiv, BCC , palliative care chaplain and educator at UCSF and caregiver. Eric: Don’t even have to document. There you go. Eric: Lovely.

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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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Hospice News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Hospice News: Today we will talk about threads of clinical documentation and satisfaction and also revenue protection. Here’s an area that you missed from a documentation perspective where you could get dinged by CMS for not documenting it, either this element or this way.” One example is a CTI. They love doing it.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Operators may not provide that level of care in a home, hospice residential facility, assisted living or a long term care nursing home, she said. It’s what is going on with the patient that day that requires that patient to be on GIP care.” In addition to these routine MAC audits, the U.S.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

But like, if you look at a surrogate document, it walks you through step by step, the hierarchy of decision makers, but also, like, how that surrogate should be making decisions. I think it’s kind of multilayered and I think that one area in particular to intervene is patients going into long term care.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

MARCH 19, 2023

This was in the 80s, before Long-Term Care (LTC) Standards were anywhere near what they are now. This call from leaders includes Ontario’s scathing Long-Term Care COVID-19 Commission Interim report.[1] I was a post-RN student in the BScN program at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Certainly SOME of those avoided hospitalizations, CPR, and ICU stays were due to documentation of those orders in the POLST. Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back Karl Steinberg, he’s a palliative care doc and a geriatrician. Because we haven’t done our job to document the value of what we’re doing.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

AlexSmithMD (still on Twitter at present). So, we do need to be careful not to disparage a whole industry just because it’s got some inherent problems that are inherent. I was about to say with our system of long-term care, but we do not have a system of long-term care. Transcript.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

And yet, I think for everyone who’s elderly, which is anyone who’s my age or older, I would say it’s very important and ought to be part of an annual exam that we ought to be asking that, and documenting it in the chart. I think Bob also noted documenting it. Eric: Anybody else’s thoughts on that?

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Health care providers are giving really good patient-focused care, but we’re not doing what I like to call family-centered care. There’s not even a place in most medical records to document that. What were your impressions of that document? It’s a beautiful document. They would be so afraid.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 27, 2023

I really feel that home care, non-medical home care is a linchpin to success for many models that are being explored currently by payers. And Laura dropped so many nuggets during that little presentation piece right there. I think that that is often overlooked, especially in our industry with our caregivers.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Eric 12:10 One theme that came out of that, just looking at the responses to your article, was there’s more to goals of care discussions than code status. There’s more to it that you should be documenting than DNR DNI, which seems like. Yeah, probably most of our listeners would agree with that. We need more.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

DECEMBER 19, 2024

However, with her trainer present, plenty of horse moms around, and no official rule saying I couldnt, I decided to trust her plan. These chapters clarify requirements for medical necessity, documentation, and patient eligibility. Understanding these rules ensures care decisions align with federal regulations and Medicare policy.

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