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CMS Releases First Round of SNF QRP Review and Correct Reports

What does this all mean? Are my numbers good? Let’s take a closer look at these reports and try to understand the information that is being provided to us.

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CMS provides First Look at Potential New SNF Payment System

Buh bye RUG IV, hello RCS-1? 

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How Senior Care Facilities Respond to New CMS Ruling on Emergency Preparedness

Emergency preparedness was a topic of great concern through much of 2016. The Zika virus seemed to move further north, ....

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CMS Introduces Six New Quality Measures and Upcoming Changes to The Nursing Facility Five-Star Rating System

The six new Quality Measures that will be reported on NHC will include four short-stay measures and two long-stay measures

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It’s Not Your Mother’s Infection Control Program Any More

I happened across the recent article in McKnight’s about the new three-year pilot program regarding infection control and prevention.

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