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Monday, October 12, 2020

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COVID-19: Costing & Reporting Considerations for Recovery

Healthcare organizations are grappling with how to assess COVID-19 costs at the organizational and patient level, knowing that decisions made now will impact strategic decision-making for months to come. This guide underlines the pressing issues for healthcare organizations and provides guidance to help chart a path to recovery.

Skilled Nursing Facility

CMS halts production of COVID-19 tests from unqualified labs

A plethora of laboratories across the United States are rapidly producing COVID-19 tests, but a recent record check by CMS resulted in 171 cease and desist letters to labs, halting production of tests at labs without the proper qualifications. The record check found that those labs did not have up-to-date Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of …

Home Health

CMS issues new home health cost report forms

CMS released the new home health cost report forms in a transmittal released on October 2. The new cost report forms are effective for cost reporting periods beginning on or after January 1, 2020, and ending on or after December 31, 2020. The federal Medicare agency did make some changes to the forms that will require …

Featured Podcast

Overcoming Staff Challenges During the Pandemic

Stefanie Corbett, owner of Corbett Healthcare Solutions, joins us today to talk about challenges that SNF staff have faced during the pandemic, and ways administrators can support and encourage staff throughout this difficult period.