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Friday, August 21, 2020

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Connecting leaders: Home Health Virtual Event

Connect with other home care agency leaders and receive strategies for continued response to COVID-19 while also adapting to PDGM at the Connecting Leaders: Home Health Virtual Event.

Home Health

Temporary policy for premium reductions announced by CMS

CMS has announced a policy allowing issuers to offer temporary premium reductions for those with 2020 coverage in the individual and small group markets. This is part of the agency’s efforts to facilitate the nation’s response to the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) and provide some additional flexibility to help ensure that consumers struggling to …

Skilled Nursing Facility

Routine inspections to resume at nursing homes

CMS announced August 17 that routine inspections will resume for all Medicare and Medicaid certified providers and suppliers. Onsite revisit surveys, non-immediate jeopardy complaint surveys and annual recertification surveys will resume as soon as resources are available. CMS has also provided guidance on resolving enforcement cases that were previously on hold due to survey reprioritization …

Featured Event

Ultimate Coding & OASIS Virtual Training Series

Virtually advance your career from the comfort of your home or office! These classes will follow the same exact agenda the in-person classes follow, will allow you to social distance, and learn from the comfort of your own home or office.

Post-Acute Advisor Podcast

Creating a culture of Trauma-Informed Care

Expert Jodi Eyigor, Director of Nursing Home Quality & Policy at LeadingAge, joins us to talk about implementing Trauma-Informed Care in SNFs.

Home Health

CMS enacts penalty for delayed RAP submission

CMS has released change request 11855, on July 31, 2020, to implement the calendar year 2021 home health Request for Anticipated Payment (RAP) payment policies. The change request imposes a penalty for delayed RAP submission implementation. Specifically, a non-timely submission payment reduction will occur “when the home health agency does not submit the RAP within …

PPS Alert for Long-Term Care

Reopening SNFs amid COVID-19

As organizations around the country are beginning to reopen, the future for SNFs is still up in the air. “[The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)] has emphasized that our SNFs are some of the most vulnerable populations and vulnerable facilities,” says Stefanie Corbett, DHA, founder of Corbett Healthcare Solutions, so before returning to any sense of normalcy, there are many precautions that SNFs need to take.