MDS Coordinator and Therapy Manager: Team Within the Team

John C. Maxwell said it best when he said, “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”₁ Relationships in healthcare are vital to the success of quality patient care. Without strong working relationships, systems will...

MDS COORDINATOR & THERAPY MANAGER RELATIONSHIP

Relationships in healthcare are vital to the success of quality patient care.  Without strong working relationships, systems will break down and the ones who ultimately suffer are the resident.  MDS Coordinators are valuable to skilled nursing facilities and their...

It’s A Wonderful Time of the Year

Do you know what will be happening from January 1 through March 31st in 2015?  Since the RAC Manual Medical Reviews have resumed for those claims over the threshold, we will begin seeing RAC Manual Medical Reviews on a post-payment basis emerging in February, for all...

And……Take Two!

We have another “go live” date for ICD-10—-OCTOBER 1, 2015!  Are you ready?  Of course you are!  We were all ready to go for the October 1, 2014 date, weren’t we? We will be transitioning from utilizing 14,000 codes (ICD-9) to utilizing 69,000 codes in ICD-10....

TECHNOLOGY! Better Than Sliced Bread?

Airports are a great location for observing how technology has integrated into our daily lives.  We watch people on their smart phones, tablets, laptop computers, and those who are walking around looking for an outlet with a look of absolute fear on their face that...