RCS-I: Where will your rehab patients fall?
With the shift from volume in RUGs IV to a goal of value and patient characteristics in RCS-I, rehab providers should ask themselves a number of frank questions.
One threat removed, but even bigger one remains
Make no mistake: Long-term care providers will take a victory wherever they can, and the Trump administration’s move to rescind the Obama administration’s ban on pre-dispute arbitration agreements...
How do people really feel about the ACA?
When it comes to social media, I tend to think providers worry a little too much.
You are entitled to leave your EMR vendor — and take your data with you
EMR vendors that are providing cloud-based products and services to long-term care providers are required by law to maintain the confidentiality, integrity and availability of protected health information.
Why (culture) change is so hard and what to do about it
The team huddled around the nursing station talking in panicked whispers after the management meeting ended. “How do they expect us to do that?” a young nurse wondered. “Yeah,”...
Caver joins Briggs Healthcare
Tim Caver has been appointed the vice president of sales & business development for Briggs Healthcare.
The House just bet on tort reform. When will they ever learn?
The long-term care field quickly embraced last week’s House vote to enact some long-overdue tort reform. That’s not so surprising, but don’t get too carried away just yet, is my advice.
The future of interoperability
In the previous two articles of this three-part series, I have endeavored to make the case for interoperability with clong-term care owner-operators – from the basics of what it is and why it’s...
Comp time: A new day for overtime pay?
The Trump Administration is ushering in a whirlwind of changes to employment law and how it is enforced.
The secret to success … you
Readers help make McKnight’s the outstanding professional news source it has become. So it is that we come to a recent email to the editor.
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