The US Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General report on nursing homes found that skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) exhibit wide differences in overall hospital readmission rates.1 Because there is evidence that hospital...
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is delaying the Minimum Data Set (MDS) 3.0 v1.18.1 release—which had been scheduled for October 1, 2020—in response to stakeholder concerns. The MDS item sets are used by nursing home and swing...
Last week the Society continued to push for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to lift the once a month restrictions on telehealth visits in nursing facilities. The Society continues to tell CMS that our clinicians are on the...
Facility-based measurement offers clinicians and groups the opportunity to receive scores in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Quality and Cost performance categories based on the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program score earned by...
From January 26 through February 16, 2020, a software issue caused skilled nursing facility (SNF) claims to be incorrectly cancelled with a message that there was no three-day qualifying hospital stay. This issue is corrected. If your claims were...
This study investigated the impact of an antimicrobial stewardship program on fluoroquinolone (FLQ) resistance in urinary Enterobacteriaceae isolated from residents of 3 French nursing homes.
Significant health care reforms resulting from the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act (IMPACT Act) and Protecting Access to Medicare Act (PAMA) have important implications for patient selection, payment, and outcomes. These...
