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CMS announced April 6, 2022, that it will pay for a second COVID-19 booster shot of either the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccines. Certain immunocompromised individuals and people ages 50 years and older who received an initial booster dose at least four months ago are eligible for another booster to increase their protection against severe disease […]
Q: On May 25, 2021, the Office for Civil Rights investigation of Peachstate Health Management LLC found systemic noncompliance with the HIPAA Security Rule, including failures to conduct an enterprisewide risk analysis, implement risk management and audit controls and maintain documentation of HIPAA Security Rule policies and procedures. This case involves a BA. What are […]
Today we’ll be revisiting our conversations with Dee Kornetti and Cindy Krafft, owners and founders of Kornetti & Krafft Health Care Solutions. Both are recognized speakers in the areas of home health and physical therapy, bringing decades of expertise to offer compliance and revenue solutions. Today, we are talking about Cindy and Dee’s newly updated […]
Sponsors: Intelycare and Vocera Post-Acute Advisor is happy to announce our offerings in honor of Skilled Nursing Week. To celebrate and honor our skilled nursing staff in the long-term care industry, we provided useful and insightful tips and analysis free to you each day of the week! To end the week, here is the list […]
Sponsors: Intelycare and Vocera Our quick pulse of the industry shows that while staff in the post-acute world felt that their organizations overall had a good (47%) or great (29%) response to COVID-19, morale could be better as we head into the second half of 2021. Overall staff morale was rated mostly “fair” (59%), and […]
Sponsored by Intelycare and Vocera With us today, in honor of skilled nursing week, is Maureen McCarthy. Maureen is president of Celtic Consulting, LLC, and CEO and founder of Care Transitions, LLP, a care coordination service provider. We chat about the proposed FY 2022 payment rule for SNFs. Post-Acute Advisor · 2022 Proposed Payment Rule […]
Brought to you by Intelycare and Vocera In honor of Skilled Nursing Week, we’d like to honor our post-acute, SNF and rehab staff with some extra and free content that we hope will be helpful. We know you’ve had a long, hard year and we want to celebrate you! We’ll be releasing something new every […]
Sponsored by: IntelyCare and Vocera As SNFs see less COVID cases in their facilities, and CMS returns its focus to “normal” operations, providers need to transition as well. COVID waivers are sunsetting and compliance tasks that have been put on the backburner need to be focused on now. Phase 3 of the Mega Rule went into […]
On April 8, 2021 the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule (CMS-1746-P) that provides updates to and proposals for the fiscal year (FY) 2022 Skilled Nursing Facility Quality Reporting Program (SNF QRP). This rule includes two new measure proposals: the Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) Requiring Hospitalization Measure and […]
With us today is Maureen McCarthy. Maureen is president of Celtic Consulting, LLC, and CEO and founder of Care Transitions, LLP, a care coordination service provider. We discuss how reimbursement avenues have changed in the past year, and how SNFs need to consider what might change as the pandemic hopefully improves. Post-Acute Advisor · Re-evaluating […]