Sat.Oct 16, 2021

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A taste of their own medicine ? Impact of COVID-19 on mental health. COVID-19 vaccines work for veterans. No mandate but make the unvaccinated pay their own way ? Patient-focused drug development.

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SNF QRP Annual Update Table for Reporting Assessment-Based QM and Standardized Patient Assessment Data Elements Affecting FY 2024 Posted

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. An update to the Skilled Nursing Facility Quality Reporting Program (SNF QRP) Annual Payment Update (APU) Table for Reporting Assessment-Based quality measures (QMs) and standardized patient assessment data elements to CMS is now available. This document has been updated to reflect the data elements required to meet the APU minimum data completion threshold for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024.

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2022 Annual Update of Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) Codes for Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Consolidated Billing (CB) AND Update New/Modifications to the Place of Service (POS) Codes for Telehealth

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS posted Transmittal 11052 – Change Request 12487 (4-pages) on October 14, 2021. . On October 13, 2021, CMS posted Transmittal 11045 – Change Request 12427.

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Latest CMS, CDC and NHSN COVID-19 Data Posted

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS has posted nursing home COVID-19 data for week ending October 3, 2021. This latest data set shows these changes from the September 26 th data set: Resident vaccination increased 0.7% from the previous week Staff vaccination increased 2.1% from the previous week Resident confirmed cases increased 3,963 from the previous week Staff confirmed cases increased 4,967 from the previous week An additional 552 resident deaths fr

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

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Emergency Preparedness Mini Toolkit

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. This 6-page toolkit includes emergency preparedness resources for nursing home team members in the TMF Quality Innovation Network Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO) region as well as across the country. Click on your area to go directly to that section. There are many great resources within this toolkit.