Month: June 2019

SNFs: Five Issues and Trends to Watch…NOW!

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The beautiful, fascinating thing about health policy in the U.S. is its cycle of evolution.  It evolves, sometimes slowly and other times quickly but always, in a progressive (not in the political sense) direction.  Providers today can be lulled to sleep (quickly) by the vacuum drone of big policy lectures, webinars, etc., easily thinking for … Read more

The Connection Between Quality and Revenue

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In nearly all provider segments of health care, revenue maximization and integrity are directly tied to compliance and quality ratings. In home health, submission of quality data via the OASIS (known as HH CAHPS) is required.  Agencies that fail to submit the required data experience reimbursement reductions of 2%.  For SNFs, reporting of QRP data … Read more