There is always something new just waiting around the corner and sometimes you don’t know it’s there until you come face to face with it. As it happens, late last week, CMS quietly finalized the Nursing Home Compare overhaul by launching a planned consolidated site called Care Compare. The CMS press release from last week… Continue reading The New Nursing Home Compare: Care Compare
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Med A Census Navigator – Version 1.2.0
Med A Census Navigator version 1.2.0 will be hitting the app stores in the next couple of days. This update adds re-hospitalization data to the app. We think this information is important because it may play a role in inpatient discharge decisions. Let’s take a look at some examples: Here is an example of searching… Continue reading Med A Census Navigator – Version 1.2.0
Wage Indexes are Changing. Get Ready for Yours!
CMS FY 2021 will be here in a few short days and with it the changes that have been finalized by CMS in the final rule on July 31st. One of the important changes that will occur this year has to do with the wage index. The wage index is an adjustment made to the… Continue reading Wage Indexes are Changing. Get Ready for Yours!
Med A Census Navigator Update
We are pleased to announce that we’ve updated Med A Census Navigator to include data from Q1 2020! If you aren’t familiar with Med A Census Navigator, it’s our FREE app for your phone or tablet that will show you all Medicare Part A discharges from every hospital in the US to every skilled nursing… Continue reading Med A Census Navigator Update
FY 2021 SNF PPS Final Rule, what you need to know!
In just a few short weeks, we will begin the second FY since the initiation of the PDPM. With the unprecedented encounter we have had with the COVID PHE, there have been decisions on the part of CMS to limit the number of obvious changes that were to take effect this fall. However, due to… Continue reading FY 2021 SNF PPS Final Rule, what you need to know!
Rehab Reflections: Defining Healthcare Literacy
Broad River’s July Rehab Reflections customer training provided an in depth regulatory and implementation overview related to healthcare literacy. How would you define literacy? More specifically, how does your organization define literacy specific to healthcare learning and understanding. Let us begin with a reference sample from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).… Continue reading Rehab Reflections: Defining Healthcare Literacy
PDPM Report Cards
Do you know how you compare to other skilled nursing facilities in the state? How do you compare to the nation? Do other facilities find more NTA points than you? Is your percentage of clinically complex similar to other facilities in your state? Do you document more or less depression than average? How does your… Continue reading PDPM Report Cards
$59/Day: Good, Great and Shameful
When $59 per Day, per PDPM Patient is a Good Thing When $59 per Day, per PDPM Patient is a Great Thing When $59 per Day, per PDPM Patient is a Shameful Thing I have been in the management of therapy delivery in SNFs for a very long time. I have seen, and probably know,… Continue reading $59/Day: Good, Great and Shameful
Med A Census Navigator™!
We’ve been hard at work during the pandemic (#COVIDEnoughAlready) creating a new tool that we’re ready to announce today! Today we release Part A Census Navigator™! What is that you ask? Census Navigator™ is an app that allows you to search for any hospital in the United States and see how many Medicare Part A… Continue reading Med A Census Navigator™!
Patients First: Do the Little Things Right
One positive theme, and there are not many, that we have seen with the COVID-19 pandemic, is that the nation has learned that there are a lot of nursing homes across the nation. Nursing homes in their communities, full of grandparents, and aunts and uncles, moms and dads of people in their inner circles. AND,… Continue reading Patients First: Do the Little Things Right