by Gina Elkins | Wednesday, October 7, 2020 | Compliance, Regulatory
CMS states “Effective QAPI programs are critical to improving the quality of life, and quality of care and services delivered in nursing homes”. QAPI is a coordinated process of two mutually important aspects of a quality management system.. These two mutually...
by Gina Elkins | Monday, September 14, 2020 | Compliance, Featured, Regulatory
“Unprecedented”- are you tired of hearing this word? COVID-19, The Public Health Emergency (PHE), Waivers, PPE, etc. If these times aren’t hard enough for health care providers, another blow to our sector is a hit to the CY2021 Physician Fee Schedule Proposed...
by Gina Elkins | Tuesday, August 11, 2020 | Compliance, Featured, Regulatory, Risk Management
The fourth quarter of FY2019 Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Reports (PEPPERs) are now available as of July 29, 2020 for Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs). The original scheduled release date was April 6, 2020. What is a P.E.P.P.E.R (PEPPER)? PEPPER...
by Gina Elkins | Friday, July 10, 2020 | Compliance, Regulatory
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have seen multiple changes. One change is the survey process. If you recall, on March 4, 2020, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CM)S required states to focus surveys on infection control and then on March 23, 2020, CMS...
by Functional Pathways | Wednesday, April 29, 2020 | Compliance, Risk Management
On April 27th, McKnight’s Long-Term Care News reports that more than 70% of healthcare providers do not have sufficient PPE to care for patients. The effects of this will be felt downstream for quite some time. On this date, the global count of positive COVID cases...
by Gina Elkins | Monday, April 13, 2020 | Compliance
As if things are not hard enough during this COVID-19 pandemic, there are people out there preying on our most vulnerable. Social Security Matters blog by Seema Verma, the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, informed us that “scammers take...
