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Friday, November 6, 2020

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Leveraging Market Data to Target Referrals

Join us on November 19th to get a better understanding of market data and its key sources while learning to mine data to maximize your referral programs. We’ll also discuss best practices for growing your base.

Private Duty

Employers looking for answers as presidential election winds down

Finally, the votes are being counted. Election Day closes a process that has seen voters across the country casting early or mail-in ballots for weeks now. Without a crystal ball, employers can’t know what they will face in the next four years, but a look at both candidates, President Donald Trump and former Vice President …

Skilled Nursing Facility

CMS to release new toolkit to expand home and community-based services

CMS announced a new Long-term Services and Supports (LTSS) Rebalancing Toolkit on November 2, designed to expand and enhance home and community-based services (HCBS). The toolkit includes four modules that provide: State strategies to increase the share of LTSS provided in community-based settings;Tools designed to assist states with policy and programmatic strategies;Case studies of innovative …

Featured Event

Private Duty NOW: Online Summit

Private Duty Now is HCPro’s exclusive online summit taking place on November 12, 2020. The half-day event features sessions on topics that matter to private duty professionals.

Post-Acute Advisor Podcast

OIG recommendations to CMS: What SNFs need to know

Stefanie Corbett, owner of Corbett Healthcare Solutions, joins us today to talk about OIG recommendations to CMS, and what SNFs need to keep an eye out for. Listen on Soundcloud Listen on Apple Podcasts

Home Health

Get distribution, billing details for COVID-19 vaccine

New CMS guidance released Oct. 28 on a future COVID-19 vaccine offered new details for providers on distribution, billing and payment. An interim final rule establishes that any vaccine that receives Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorization will be covered under Medicare as a preventive vaccine at no cost to beneficiaries. The rule also relaxes …

PPS Alert for Long-Term Care

What’s the latest with COVID-19?

Reporting requirements for nursing homes are constantly changing during the pandemic. CMS has been updating requirements weekly, and sometimes daily, so it can be difficult for SNFs to keep track of what exactly they need to report and when they need to report it.