by Gina Elkins | Tuesday, April 11, 2017 | Clinical, Compliance, Regulatory
Last month I blogged about therapy coding. This month, I want to talk how to ensure therapy medical and treatment diagnoses are accurate and applicable prior to submitting the claim to Medicare. This is accomplished through an effective and thorough facility Triple...
by Functional Pathways | Tuesday, March 14, 2017 | Clinical
As healthcare reform continues focus on the service delivery model for rehabilitation services, “transition” is now the verbiage to use versus the traditional term of “discharge”. As a verb, transition is the process or period of changing from one state or condition...
by Functional Pathways | Friday, January 20, 2017 | Clinical
Understanding How Nursing Homes are Rated Nursing homes vary in the quality of care and services they provide to their residents. Reviewing health inspection results, staffing data and quality measures are three important ways to measure nursing home quality. These...
by Gina Elkins | Friday, January 6, 2017 | Clinical, Compliance
Effective January 1, 2017 Physical and Occupational Therapists will be using new complexity-based evaluation codes and a new re-evaluation code for each discipline. This policy change was discussed in the CY 2017 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule rulemaking. The goal is...
by Functional Pathways | Monday, December 5, 2016 | Clinical, Featured
We will be changing the way we do business in the PAC world in the upcoming years. That’s a given. There are so many legislative changes going on for PAC right now it’s very difficult to keep up with. There is no doubt that CMS has issued directives to decrease length...
by Functional Pathways | Friday, November 11, 2016 | Clinical
I’ve always heard that the one thing you can count on in healthcare is Change. I’ve come to believe that there couldn’t be a truer statement made. I am just getting back from the annual NASL meeting and I learned a new term there. Although I am very familiar with the...
