Discharge planning is the key element in managing Medicare Part A length of stay. A home assessment can significantly affect the process.
Regaining an appreciation of prevention
By
Tara Roberts
Feb 05, 2015
Healthcare is mandated to reduce spending. The problem is that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and others are so blinded by the “reduce spending” element that we have lost our...
Contract therapy vs. management agreement: Who gets the win?
By
Melissa Brown
Nov 15, 2021
SNF providers are reconsidering everything after PDPM and COVID-19. These two tremendous catalysts have turned skilled nursing upside down in many communities, and have left providers wondering which route...
Therapy cuts are here
By
Jean Wendland Porter
Feb 11, 2022
We are over a month into 2022 and have already billed the first month of the 15% reduction in therapy reimbursement for our Medicare patients. You’ll recall that Jan. 1, 2022, was the day that Medicare Part...
Pandemic offers upsides for long-term care, industry veteran says
By
Liza Berger
Nov 05, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic, while extremely dangerous and challenging, offers a chance for long-term care and the therapy it offers to prove their worth, one longtime industry executive told McKnight’s Long-Term...
More nursing home cuts buried deep in CMS physician fee schedule
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jul 12, 2022
Healthcare providers, including doctors and physicians who treat nursing home patients, continue to find more troubling details in the 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule.
CMS could overhaul therapy pay rules in 2018
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Oct 18, 2017
LAS VEGAS – The Centers of Medicare & Medicaid Services’ recent advanced notice of proposed rulemaking could bring a total overhaul of therapy payment rules and be in place as early as October...
Cracking new PT and OT evaluation codes
By
Renee Kinder
Nov 17, 2016
January 1 will put new evaluation codes for physical and occupational therapy into effect and we all better be paying close attention.
Therapy carnage at start of PDPM not as severe as feared: study
By
James M. Berklan
Mar 02, 2021
The first academic study of its kind has found that the first three months of nursing homes’ overhauled Medicare payment system at the end of 2019 led to a distinct drop-off in the employed number of...
Providers, are you asking, ‘Show me your therapy minutes’?
By
Renee Kinder
Apr 08, 2021
It is a simple ask. It is the right ask. Show me your therapy minutes. The COVID-19 pandemic appears to have provided a bit of a pause to the anticipated review and audits we all anticipated seeing associated...