Ask the Payment Expert? Why am I not receiving incentive payments for FY 2019?
By
Patricia Boyer
Nov 02, 2018
Why am I not receiving incentive payments for FY 2019 SNF Quality Reporting Program (QRP) and Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) are separate, but related, programs. QRP is required by the IMPACT ACT to collect...
Ask the Payment Expert about … acuity-based staffing
By
Patricia Boyer
Jan 06, 2017
What is acuity-based staffing and how do we know what our acuity is?
Ask the payment expert … about matching diagnoses codes
By
Patricia Boyer
Apr 01, 2013
How important is it that diagnoses coded in Section I of the MDS match what is being billed on the UB-04?
Ask the payment expert: What should we do about our therapy services to fully capitalize on MDS 3.0 and...
Ask the payment expert … about the Brief Interview for Mental Status
By
Patricia Boyer
Feb 01, 2014
Is there anything we should be doing with the results of the Brief Interview for Mental Status (BIMs) and PHQ-9 that we get from the MDS?
Ask the Payment Expert about … the new MDS Section
By
Patricia Boyer
May 04, 2016
Can you explain the new MDS Section and assessment?
Ask the Payment Expert about … bundled payments in rural areas
By
Patricia Boyer
Mar 04, 2016
We are in a rural area and we’ve tried to talk to our hospital about bundled payment but they don’t seem to know what we are talking about. What can we do?
Ask the payment expert: Measuring the impact of resident interviews and MDS 3.0