HIT Consultant

MAY 10, 2024

This collaboration aims to transform patient care delivery by leveraging telehealth technology across Baptist Health’s entire network of hospitals. – Caregility Cloud™ is a trusted platform used by over 1,000 hospitals across the US.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 26, 2024

Part of that conversation with hospital and health system partners includes convincing case managers that patients will be better suited at home. Our value prop to hospitals when promoting palliative care is, ‘We want to continue these difficult conversations in a less stressful environment.’” And then what happens?

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Hospitals Rehabilitation Home Care Nursing 69

HIT Consultant

MAY 2, 2023

What You Should Know: CareSource , a nonprofit managed care organization, today announced a $1M investment in Augment Therapy , a digital health company enhancing rehabilitative healthcare and exercise through immersive and gamified technology.

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Physical Therapy Rehabilitation Nursing Hospitals 97

Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The lack of tenured nurses creates a risk to quality outcomes. The numbers of nurses and doctors coming out of school are on the decline, and many want to work in larger cities where they can maximize the number of patients or disease states they can see. Then, there are other companies that are doing rehabilitation programs.

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Briggs Healthcare

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

News and World Report “evaluated over 15,000 nursing homes to help you find the best care for your loved one.”. The landing page to find nursing homes is located here. The 2022-2023 ratings highlight nursing homes that earned a High-Performing rating in short-term and long-term care. The related press release is found here.

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Etactics

JUNE 29, 2023

The average private room in a nursing home is $10,104 per month in the United States. Really the price of nursing home care depends on many different factors. In some cases, nursing home facilities have all-inclusive rates. This can look like many different things, one of which is the assistance found in nursing homes.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 26, 2022

Specifically, the partnership will allow Memorial Hermann to deliver acute hospital care, post-hospitalization skilled nursing care and palliative care services in the home setting. The company’s hospital care at home model has been able to lower readmission rates by 44%, and decrease hospital length of stay by 35%.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 29, 2022

"Without the utilization of telehealth, patients arriving at an emergency department often have long wait times before meeting with an available physician, creating a strain on social workers and other members of the behavioral healthcare teams inside hospitals," said Dr. Eric C. FCC funds for telehealth.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

"Needle procedures can be very stressful for children of all ages," Dr. David Seo, senior vice president and chief information and digital officer for Nicklaus Children’s Health System, told South Florida Hospital News in July. Evelyn Chan, CEO and co-founder, said in the statement. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare It News

JULY 25, 2022

Personify Care has recently supported several digital transformation initiatives across hospitals and health facilities in Australia by implementing its digital pathways. One of them, the Central Adelaide Local Health Network , was able to launch a surgical pre-rehabilitation programme, which helps patients become fit for surgery.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 18, 2022

Erie County Medical Center Corporation , a public benefit corporation that operates a hospital, Erie County Medical Center, located in Buffalo, New York, failed to timely provide an individual with a complete copy of his medical records.

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Healthcare Rehabilitation Hospitals Nursing 321

Home Health Care

JULY 15, 2022

PAC settings include home health agencies, skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), in-patient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) and long-term care hospitals (LTCHs). The American Hospital Association (AHA) is among the health care groups that have come out swinging against the unified PAC payment model draft. PAC setting types.

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Hospitals Rehabilitation Medicare Medicaid 86

Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Those sectors were skilled nursing facilities, outpatient hospitals, inpatient rehabilitation facilities and hospice. In the latest report, home health was not included as one of the sectors contributing most to overall improper payments.

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Rehabilitation Medicare Medicaid Nursing 112

Home Health Care

JULY 18, 2022

Tampa General Hospital has thrown its hat into the home-based care ring. To pull this off, the hospital has formed a partnership with the Visiting Nurse Association of Florida (VNA), a home health agency. Tampa General Hospital is a nonprofit academic medical center and one of the largest hospitals in the U.S.

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Nursing Home Care Rehabilitation Hospitals 93

Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The update, the agency noted, will also offer “information about clinicians who aren’t affiliated with a hospital but work in other types of health care facilities.”. Prior to the Monday announcement, one of the most recent changes to Care Compare was adding Medicare-certified nursing home ownership data to the tool.

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Rehabilitation Medicare Nursing Doctors 95

HIT Consultant

MARCH 21, 2022

Cardiac rehabilitation is indicated following a heart attack, heart surgery (stent placement, coronary artery bypass surgery, or valvular surgery) as well as for patients who chronically manage congestive heart failure or stable angina. Recora is redesigning heart health, beginning with cardiac recovery.

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Rehabilitation Medicare Nursing Hospitals 98

Briggs Healthcare

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Oct 02, 2023 Notice of Upcoming SNF QRP Measure Removals The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is alerting Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) providers of upcoming measure removals from the SNF Quality Reporting Program (QRP).

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Briggs Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

CMS-R-5—Physicians Certifications/Recertifications in Skilled Nursing Facilities Manual Instructions. The documentation is a condition for Medicare Part A payment for post-hospital SNF care. Today, September 29, 2022, CMS-R-5/2022-21108 was published in the Federal Register. The PDF version is found here. Under the PRA ( 44 U.S.C.

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Nursing Rehabilitation Medicare Medicaid 40

HIT Consultant

MARCH 5, 2024

At some healthcare institutions like Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford and Kaiser Permanente , VR has already emerged as a transformative tool for refining employee competencies. Another use case for immersive VR experiences is nurse empathy training.

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Telemedicine Healthcare Physical Therapy Rehabilitation 105

Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 3, 2022

Learn about 2022 regulation changes to payment, quality, and policy for : Acute care hospital Hospice Skilled nursing facility Ambulatory surgical center Hospital outpatient Inpatient psychiatric facility Inpatient rehabilitation facility Long-term care hospital Durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics, & supplies (New) Home health.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

during 2017-2022, creating a substantial economic burden for affected hospitals. Opioid overdose patients that present to the ED are at high risk for multiple organ failure, hospitalization, increased costs due to ICU stays and unplanned readmissions following discharge. hospitals are $95.43 billion annually, or 7.86

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Hospitals Medicaid Rehabilitation Accountability 52

Briggs Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The Long-Term Care Hospital ( LTCH ) Quality Reporting Program (QRP) Quality Measure Calculations and Reporting User’s Manual Version 4.0, The Skilled Nursing Facility ( SNF ) and Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility ( IRF ) Quality Reporting Program (QRP) Quality Measure Calculations and Reporting User’s Manual Version 4.0,

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Briggs Healthcare

JULY 11, 2022

PAC providers include skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs), long-term care hospitals (LTCHs), and home health agencies (HHA) [§ 1899B(a)(2)(A) of the Social Security Act]. It can be provided after an acute care hospitalization as well as for “community entrants” (i.e.,

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Medicare Rehabilitation Nursing Hospitals 98

Home Health Care

MARCH 14, 2022

For seniors, receiving skilled care at home – instead of at a skilled nursing facility (SNF) – could have considerable benefits, including better patient experience and lower costs. That’s according to a study by researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

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Home Care Rehabilitation Patient Experience Hospitals 127

Briggs Healthcare

JULY 26, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare On July 25, 2023, CMS posted QSO-23-02-ALL … EXPIRED EFFECTIVE: June 5, 2023.

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Physical Therapy Rehabilitation Nursing Hospitals 52

Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

One question that has always loomed large, however, was how one payment system could be applied to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), in-patient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs), long-term care hospitals (LTCHs) and, of course, home health providers. The analysts also looked at the implementation issues of a post-acute care PPS.

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Rehabilitation Medicare Nursing Hospitals 97

Home Health Care

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The four settings included in the legislation were home health agencies, skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) and long-term care hospitals. If you think about it, if someone’s in a long-term acute care hospital, how much are we working on bathing and dressing?

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Rehabilitation Medicare Quality of Care Patient Experience 108

Briggs Healthcare

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Content-related questions should be submitted to the setting specific help desk: Home Health QRP Help Desk Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility QRP Help Desk Long-Term Care Hospital QRP Help Desk Skilled Nursing Facility QRP Help Desk. PAC Training Mailbox.

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Sheppard Health Law

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The CMS Fact Sheets are available for the following types of providers: Physician and Other Clinicians Hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals, ASCs and CMHCs Teaching Hospitals, Teaching Physicians and Medical Residents Long Term Care Facilities (Skilled Nursing Facilities and/or Nursing Facilities) Home Health Agencies Hospice Inpatient Rehabilitation (..)

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Rehabilitation Medicare Medicaid Nursing 52

Briggs Healthcare

AUGUST 10, 2022

The submission deadline for the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF), Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH), and Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Quality Reporting Programs is approaching. Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare.

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Rehabilitation Prevention Nursing Hospitals 81

Briggs Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Next month, The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will release two new Health Equity Confidential Feedback Reports to post-acute care (PAC) providers in the Home Health (HH), Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF), Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH), and Skilled Nursing (..)

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Rehabilitation Quality Improvement Medicare Medicaid 40

Briggs Healthcare

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The corresponding CMS Fact Sheet provides these statements: “Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) acted to improve home health care for older adults and people with disabilities through a final rule that would accelerate the shift from paying for Medicare home health services based on volume to a system that pays for value.

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Rehabilitation Physical Therapy Medicare Nursing 75

Home Health Care

JUNE 1, 2023

The study — done in conjunction with the nonprofit hospital system Hoag Hospital — was conducted between 2021 and 2023. They have lots of different services: physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech, nursing, etc. They also had a 28% lower hospital readmission rate, according to the study.

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Physical Therapy Rehabilitation Quality of Care Accountability 84

Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 12, 2021

"To protect our staff and patients who are in the hospital or in our clinics, we use telehealth to care for those suspected to have COVID-19 or who have COVID-19 symptoms without bringing them into the office and unnecessarily exposing others to the virus," she added.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Hospital-Psychiatric Unit. Physician/Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. Certified Clinical Nurse Specialist. Nurse Practitioner. Top 20 Provider Specialties Adopting Telehealth. Physician/Psychiatry. Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Psychologist, Clinical. Physician/Neuropsychiatry. Physician/Addiction Medicine.

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Healthcare Rehabilitation Nursing Prevention 98

Briggs Healthcare

OCTOBER 27, 2021

This training is intended for providers in the following post-acute care (PAC) settings: Home Health Agencies (HHAs), Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities (IRFs), Long-Term Care Hospitals (LTCHs), and Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs). Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility: IRF QRP Help Desk. Home Health: HH QRP Help Desk.

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Rehabilitation Nursing Medicaid Medicare 40

Briggs Healthcare

JULY 25, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The MedPAC July 2022 Data Book: Health Care Spending and the Medicare Program (208 pages) provides information on national health care and Medicare spending as well as Medicare beneficiary demographics, dual-eligible beneficiaries, quality of care in the Medicare program, and Medicare (..)

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