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Join us at Post-Acute NOW!
Long term care, skilled nursing facilities, and inpatient rehabilitation facilities across the globe are taking steps to establish new guidelines and keep the industry moving forward into an ever brighter future. Join us and industry leaders as we explore the future of post-acute at this virtual event on June 17. This half day event will focus on topics that are important to post-acute professionals tasked with improving overall quality of care and reducing total health spending. | | |
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| Skilled Nursing Facility | New LTC vaccine rules from CMS should be on your radar | | CMS has released an interim final rule that sets COVID-19 vaccine requirements for long-term care (LTC) facilities and intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities (ICFs-IID). The changes to the Conditions of Participation (CoPs) for those facilities primarily require vaccines to be offered to residents, clients and staff when available. They also set education and CDC reporting … |
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| Home Health | CMS sets expectations for how states (and providers) should spend new HCBS funding | | CMS has issued guidance to states on how it expects officials to administer new federal spending for home and community-based services (HCBS). The guidance also suggests how agencies should spend the money if they end up benefiting from this new federal aid. Up to $11.4 billion in funding was included in the American Rescue Plan … |
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| Featured Event
Home Health Coding Summit
Coming together, coding together. Join us as we focused on coding accuracy (including COVID-19 codes), the importance of coding in PDGM, a look at new codes and guidance updates, strategies for professional development, process improvement around timely billing and gathering documentation and more. | | |
| Private Duty | Employers Warned Not to Overreact to CDC’s Latest Mask Guidance | | The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) announcement that people fully vaccinated against COVID-19 can shed their masks in many settings, including indoors, no doubt came as welcome news to mask-weary workers, but employers are warned not to relax rules too quickly. For one thing, the CDC announcement applies only to fully vaccinated people. … |
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| Home Health | CMS seeking HOPE beta test participants | | CMS and its contractor, Abt Associates, are now recruiting Medicare-certified hospice providers to participate in a beta test of the draft hospice patient assessment instrument called Hospice Outcomes & Patient Evaluation (HOPE). Recruitment ends June 14, with data collection anticipated to begin in fall 2021, according to an announcement May 12. The detailed recruitment announcement … |
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| PPS Alert for Long-Term Care
Goal writing for skilled care
As the foundation of a treatment plan, goals should paint a clear and distinct picture of anticipated outcomes of skilled speech-language pathology services. They serve as clinical road maps for the resident and the therapist, in addition to providing clear, functional, objectively measurable target areas that serve as a guide to payers for outcomes achieved during intervention. It can be difficult to find a happy medium between creating objective measures while also remaining focused on function. | | |
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