Seasons Hospice

APRIL 22, 2025

Hospice care is usually provided in the patients home, but it can also be delivered in hospice centers, hospitals, or long-term care facilities. Key Differences Between Palliative Care and Hospice Care 1. The goal is to help the patient live as fully and comfortably as possible, without curative treatment.

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Caregiver Support Services

MARCH 7, 2024

The likelihood of needing long-term care increases as you age, and the expenses that come with long-term care also increase. These costs are normal, but the high price point can still catch many off guard, which is why it’s important to prepare for long-term care expenses sooner rather than later.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

JULY 21, 2022

But onward to post-acute care and what we see coming in the future. . Last week we as an industry saw RTI International release a report titled: CMS Report to Congress: Unified Payment for Medicare-Covered Post-Acute Care Analysis and Development of the Prototype Unified PAC Prospective Payment System Called for in the IMPACT Act.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Person-centered care is becoming increasingly important in all care settings, as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services continues to prioritize value-based care and individual care outcomes. What is person-centered care? It empowers them by informing them and keeping them involved in the care.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

JUNE 23, 2022

Social determinants of health, understanding what they are, their impact on patient care, and their influence on effective transitions across care settings are all essential for rehab providers. This approach demands that providers and individuals share power and responsibility in goal setting, decision making and care management.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Every fall, healthcare professionals anxiously await the release of the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Final Rule, which outlines policy changes for Medicare payments under the PFS and updates to other Medicare Part B payment policies. What the Final Rule doesn’t fully explain is the journey that brought us here.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

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. . • One toileting item. • One oral hygiene item. • Two walking items.

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Elder Care Matters

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Medicare Part B Premiums to Decrease in 2023 For the first time in over a decade, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced that Medicare beneficiaries will enjoy a lower premium in 2023. That’s welcome news for seniors living on a fixed income and struggling with dramatic price increases on, well, everything.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

AUGUST 18, 2022

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has contracted with Acumen LLC and Abt Associates to develop quality and cost measures for use in the IRF, LTCH, SNF, and HH QRPs and the Nursing Home Quality Initiative (NHQI). The PAC QRP Support team will conduct further analysis to inform this decision. Project Overview.

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Daily Nurse

APRIL 24, 2023

Many older Americans receive care from aging services facilities across the United States. There are currently about 14 million people receiving some form of long-term care services. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. That number is expected to double by 2050, according to the U.S.

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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).

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

APRIL 25, 2024

The recently published “Quality in Motion: Acting on the CMS National Quality Strategy April 2024” highlights further evolution of the 2022 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) National Quality Strategy (NQS). The CMS Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) retains the role to test new and innovative measures.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Many long-term care residents live in Missouri nursing homes for years. 1] The address and phone number for the appeals agency recently changed so if a facility is utilizing a template letter developed years ago, the facility should ensure the template letter is updated with the new information. 19 CSR 30-82.050(4)(B).

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

JANUARY 20, 2022

Experts quoted in this week’s McKnight’s Long-Term Care News article address key points that this is a start. However, we could benefit from seeing a broader patient population, more information across the entire course of care, and more granularity in functional outcomes across disciplines. Why ask why?

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

MAY 11, 2023

The CR is an attempt to increase comprehension of correct billing practices under the PDPM by all SNF providers that bill Medicare. The key elements of this project include: All MACs that review SNF Medicare claims MACs will select 5 claims from each selected provider. in 2022, up from 7.79% in 2021.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

MAY 25, 2023

In the coalition’s statement to CMS , they also noted that per the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, 63% of Medicare outpatient therapy services are furnished by institutional providers. While Section 4113 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 (P.L. Great, what about SNFs?

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

JUNE 9, 2022

Therapists across the nation have seen the benefits of telehealth service allowances since the initial Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announcement of the telehealth expansion in an April 30, 2020, press release and its COVID-19 Emergency Declaration Blanket Waivers for Health Care Providers.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

JUNE 6, 2024

The guide book for plan of care development for patients is clearly outlined in Medicare Benefit Policy Manual Chapter 15 Section 220.1.2, Plans of Care for Outpatient Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, or Speech-Language Pathology Services. Next, we must understand what should be included in the plan. Have a column idea?

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The World According to Dr. El

JANUARY 11, 2022

Late last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced that they will begin to post staff turnover data on the Medicare.gov Care Compare website. . While this is bound to cause immediate alarm among providers, in the long run this is a positive development for the industry.

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Home Care Pulse

MARCH 30, 2023

As a back-up plan, collecting contact information should be a secondary goal of the call. The follow-up process is commonly overlooked: you need to secure the opportunity to send additional information that they can share with their family, and check-in to ensure their care needs are met in the future—even if they choose a different provider.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

MAY 26, 2022

Review the instructions and obtain the information required to authenticate access. SNFs that are swing-bed units of short-term acute care hospitals will use validation codes provided to Health Care Quality Information Systems (HCQIS) Access Roles and Profile (HARP) Security Administrators to access their PEPPER from the PEPPER Portal.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

And then when you look long-term care facilities, more between that like 35 to 50%, and then much higher estimates in hospitalized older adults. So, we use that information to formulate a treatment plan. One, we term compensatory strategies, and the other are rehabilitative. Raele: Yeah. Eric: Great.

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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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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

DECEMBER 9, 2021

” that there was likely a shift occurring in post-acute care payment reform AND the fact that there was a technical expert panel (TEP) in place providing feedback and guidance to CMS? Assess the impact of the payment alternative on SNF residents, SNF providers, and the overall Medicare system. Recommend adjustments for adoption by CMS.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Department of Health and Human Services defines health literacy as “the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information needed to make appropriate health decisions.”. Supporting the health literacy of those we serve goes way beyond simply sharing the information.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

MARCH 31, 2022

Medicare still currently considers these codes to be non-covered. WIthin this press release the following was noted: “CMS intends to explore coverage process improvements that will enhance access to innovative and beneficial medical devices in a way that will better suit the health care needs of people with Medicare.

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Minority Nurse

MARCH 29, 2023

Meet Esther Conteh, BSN, MSN, Associate Vice President, Care Management at VNS Health, overseeing clinical care of VNS Health CHOICE Medicaid Advantage Plus (MAP) , and Medicaid Managed Long-Term Care (MLTC) plans. What is your title, and where do you work? That’s one thing I love about this 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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Hope Hospice

JUNE 15, 2020

Home health care is specialized medical care that is ordered by a physician and is administered by trained healthcare professionals such as nurses, physician assistants, physical therapists, occupational therapists, medical social workers, dietitians, etc. Home health care is covered by Medicare and most insurances.

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Hope Hospice

JUNE 15, 2020

Home health care is specialized medical care that is ordered by a physician and is administered by trained healthcare professionals such as nurses, physician assistants, physical therapists, occupational therapists, medical social workers, dietitians, etc. Home health care is covered by Medicare and most insurances.

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Home Care Pulse

AUGUST 11, 2022

The care at home industry is also the only environment where long-term care providers are expected to deliver care to all their patients between the hours of 9 a.m. We have to question everything if we are going to meet the needs of the future,” Matt Kroll, President of Assistive Care Services at BAYADA explains.

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Hope Hospice

JUNE 15, 2020

Home health care is specialized medical care that is ordered by a physician and is administered by trained healthcare professionals such as nurses, physician assistants, physical therapists, occupational therapists, medical social workers, dietitians, etc. Home health care is covered by Medicare and most insurances.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

So it defines unrepresented as someone who lacks decisional capacity to provide informed consent to a particular medical treatment. And that can really inform what your own institutional policy is. This is Eric Widera. Alex 01:24 This is Alex Smith. But we always talk about capacity being decision specific. Eric 20:31 Yeah.

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Nurse.com

JULY 11, 2022

A long-term care nurse shared that her facility was accused of negligence in failing to use bed rails properly to prevent residents from falling out of bed. . This act requires that nursing homes provide quality care, protect residents from all forms of abuse and neglect, and spell out residents’ rights.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Even more so, specific Medicare and Medicaid policies perpetuate this cycle. After experiencing a functional decline at the hospital, the woman, no longer able to live at home safely, was sent to an SNF for post-acute care, covered by Medicare. There, she developed an infection and was readmitted, continuing the cycle.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. He wants to know what do you guys think about the effect of private equity on hospice and long-term care? We have on that podcast about re-imagining long-term care.

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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. The proposed requirements do not reflect LPNs in the HPRD.

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