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GAO: New payment rates for Part B lab tests may lead to billions in overpayments

Medicare’s new method of calculating payment rates for laboratory tests, intended to reduce Medicare spending by $360 million in the first year, could cost the agency billions in overpayments, according to a recent report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

CMS to provide two-part hospice training webinar

CMS will host a two-part webinar 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. EST Dec. 13 called “Updates to Public Reporting in Fiscal Year 2019: Hospice Comprehensive Assessment Measure and Data Correction Deadlines.”

HHS considers modifying HIPAA

HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has issued a request for information (RFI) to help it identify provisions of HIPAA privacy and security regulations that should be modified.

Review choice demo won’t start on time in Illinois

CMS has announced that it its review choice demonstration won’t launch as planned in Illinois on Dec. 10.

You are invited to submit a proposal to speak at the: Home Health Payment Summit

DecisionHealth is recruiting home health professionals to present at the Home Health Payment Summit. The conference will take place Aug. 6-7, 2019, in San Antonio, Texas. Read more about this opporutnity.

New in the November issue of PPS Alert for Long-Term Care...

Op Ed: The real impacts of poor quality, inadequate compli-ance and weak risk management

A number of interesting information drops oc-curred this past week or so that reminded me that from time to time, the obvious isn’t always so obvious. The seniors housing and skilled care in-dustry today is going through a rocky patch. A solid half of the SNF industry is severely hurting or struggling mightily due to Medicare Advantage, softer demand, pervasive reliance on Medicaid for census, labor shortages, rising wage pressure, tight Medicare reimbursement, or new regulations, to name a few. While not as pervasive in its struggles as the SNF industry, assisted living is facing chal-lenges due to softer census, too much capacity, rising resident acuity, labor costs and shortages, and gradually increasing regulatory scrutiny. The relative strength in the overall senior housing and post-acute sector is home health. Notice, I did say relative as home health demand is good but regu-latory over-burden is still present along with tight reimbursement. Home health is also experiencing labor challenges, the same as SNFs and ALFs. Many, many high-end providers are still strug-gling with census challenges and soft demand in certain markets.

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Monthly In-Service: December issue of CNA Training Advisor

Range of motion and positioning

Click here to receive a new lesson plan every month, including course materials, a 4-page in-service, and a quiz targeted to address the unique needs, interests, and concerns of CNAs.

Education and Training Tools

Identifying and Preventing UTIs in Long-Term Care

Home Health Administrator's Summit, May 15-17, 2019 - Las Vegas

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