Bundled payments offer a single, comprehensive payment that covers all of the services involved when a patient is receiving care. Hospitals, post-acute care providers, physicians, and other...
Bundled Payments Revisited
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- Bundled Payments Revisited - March 16, 2022
- How to Best Manage Your MDS Nurse for PDPM Reimbursement - February 4, 2022
- Long-Term Care Staffing Crisis Needs Government Involvement - February 2, 2022
How to Best Manage Your MDS Nurse for PDPM Reimbursement
PDPM reimbursement takes a holistic view of the resident and relies on a set of systems working in synchronization to account for the care provided. Each system views the resident from a different...
Long-Term Care Staffing Crisis Needs Government Involvement
There has been a nursing shortage in the United States. The virus crisis has made this a crisis, especially in long-term care. Government involvement may be necessary to solve this problem for...
5 Signs That Your PDPM Reimbursement Systems Are Broken
PDPM takes into account the systems at your facility. Unfortunately, those systems are not always functioning at a high level, which results in flawed documentation in long term care software that...
Current Long-Term Care Facility Survey System Carries the Risk of Producing Sterilized Care
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) conducts surveys of long-term care facilities following the protocols set up to determine whether a facility is following regulations and eligible...
How an MDS Nurse Can Perfect PDPM Reimbursement
An MDS Nurse is responsible for calculating PDPM reimbursement. MDS nurses directly impact reimbursement. They are the drivers of PDPM scores. They generate revenue for facilities by documenting...
The Questions an MDS Nurse Must Ask for PDPM Reimbursement
The MDS nurse is responsible for PDPM reimbursement from the moment a resident steps into a facility to the day they are discharged. That means that the MDS nurse needs support and information from...
The 7 Attributes of an Outstanding MDS Nurse
Under PDPM reimbursement, your MDS nurse will be the person who ensures that your facility is paid for the care it provides. So what are the attributes of a good MDS nurse? In short, you should look...
What PDPM Reimbursement Means for Long-Term Care
On October 1, 2018, the CMS introduced a case-mix classification model, the Patient-Driven Payment Model (PDPM). PDPM reimbursement, which was put into effect on October 1, 2019, shifted the...
3 Ways An MDS Nurse Can Improve Electronic Nursing Documentation
An MDS nurse is the driving force behind electronic nursing documentation in nursing home software. That is why he or she will need to be both knowledgeable and thorough in their processes. At the...