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Identifying your competency assessors

Can you identify competency assessors by title? Let’s look at the following common job titles that may carry with them the responsibility for competency assessment.

Congress makes another attempt to eliminate three-midnight rule barriers to SNF coverage

This March, Congress will re-introduce legislation with bipartisan support to allow Medicare beneficiaries that are hospitalized in observation to qualify for SNF coverage following their hospital stay. Currently, under the three-midnight rule, beneficiaries must have been categorized as being an inpatient in a hospital for three midnights in order to qualify for a Medicare Part A SNF stay.

CMS rewrites surveyor guidance for determining immediate jeopardy

Source: Home Health Line

In an effort to streamline its process and increase communication with providers, CMS has rewritten its guidance for surveyors on when and how to determine if an immediate jeopardy (IJ) to patients exists.

CMS posts materials for home health quality reporting training

Source: Home Health Line

CMS has posted training materials for the recent home heath quality reporting program in-person "Train the Trainer" event for home health agencies.

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

TKA removed from Medicare IPO list: Implications for SNFs

In the final 2018 outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) rule released by CMS, total knee arthroplasty, also known as total knee replacement (TKA/TKR), was removed from the Medicare inpatient-only (IPO) list. The IPO list includes procedures that are only paid under the hospital inpatient prospective payment system.

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Monthly In-Service: March issue of CNA Training Advisor

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Education and Training Tools

Requirements of Participation: Are You Ready for Phase 3?

Withstand Surveys by Mastering Your Understanding of Newly Released Interpretive Guidelines

Weather Any Disaster: Tighten Up Your Agency's Emergency Preparedness

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

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