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Friday, January 22, 2021

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Prepare Your Home Care Business for 2021

With a new administration in the White House, we must anticipate new challenges the industry may face. Join Littler Shareholder, Angelo Spinola, for a high level overview of the latest legal updates in the home care industry for private duty.

Skilled Nursing Facility

Q&A: Providing alternatives to telemedicine

Q: Telemedicine may not be the best fit for all patients. How can case managers help facilitate in-person visits for those patients that cannot engage in telemedicine visits? A: If both in-person and telemedicine visits are available, it may be helpful to communicate with the providers to help educate patients on which might be more …

Home Health

MACs announce RAP workaround due to error message

An issue with RAP processing under the new no-pay RAP policies has led to some RAPs being returned to agencies, but Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) have determined a workaround, according to a message from CGS to providers last week. While its optional for you to report a Core-Based Statistical Area (CBSA) code using value code …

Featured Podcast

Using Data to Improve COVID-19 Patient Outcomes

On episode 20 of PSQH: The Podcast, host Jay Kumar talks to Dr. Lissy Hu, founder and CEO of CarePort, about how aggregating COVID-19 data has helped improve patient care.

Skilled Nursing Facility

Q&A: Querying for acute respiratory failure

Q: Acute respiratory failure is consistently one of our top denied diagnoses. We’ve tried to address common documentation errors through education but are still seeing issues. How can our CDI staff and coders create more effective queries for this condition? A: The main reason I see for acute respiratory failure denials is a lack of …

Post-Acute Advisor Podcast

Quality Measures and Vaccination Programs

Today we talk with Annette Sanders, MSN, RN, CLNC, senior consultant at LW Consulting about new proposed quality measures and about challenges and considerations to think about while running a vaccination program in your facility. Listen below or at: Soundcloud Spotify Apple Podcasts Post-Acute Advisor · Infection Reporting and COVD-19 Vaccination Programs

PPS Alert for Long-Term Care

Despair: When residents feel loss

It is no wonder elders often feel a sense of despair when entering a long-term care environment. The thought of spending hours in a bed, accompanied by memories and faced with loss, can easily provoke strongly negative emotions.