How to succeed in the New Hospice Compare Era
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How to succeed in the New Hospice Compare Era

How do consumers find the quality of hospice care that best suits their needs? The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) answered this question by unveiling its hospice comparison site, Hospice Compare. Hospice providers should take careful note of how they are rated on the website. The Hospice Compare website is designed to help…

CNBC: Reiterating that you should consider a career at Net Health

CNBC: Reiterating that you should consider a career at Net Health

Durham (NC), Nashville, and Pittsburgh were ranked as the top three cities to accommodate millennials aged 25-35, according to a recent CNBC article. What’s the link to us? Net Health works in each of these cities. Why are these places so great? (Don’t take our word for it, let the research speak for itself.) According to the article,…

Over the Edge, Pittsburgh – 2017

Over the Edge, Pittsburgh – 2017

Our Clubhouse’s annual Over-The-Edge challenge, a fundraiser event dedicated to providing support to families affected by cancer, took place this past week. Net Health raised money to have two Net Health All-stars, Brian Shivler and William Scheer, rappel down the 26th story Oliver Building in Downtown Pittsburgh. The two nominated not only showed tremendous courage…

RCS-1 is a Rewrite of Therapy Reimbursement Rules

RCS-1 is a Rewrite of Therapy Reimbursement Rules

With Resident Classification System, Version I (RCS-1), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is proposing significant changes to the current reimbursement model for therapy services, now under the Resource Utilization Group (RUG) system. In fact, as it’s currently written, RCS-1 is a complete rewrite of the payment rules SNFs have been subject to…

How hospices can run an IDG meeting in minutes (yes, it can be done)

How hospices can run an IDG meeting in minutes (yes, it can be done)

Bi-weekly interdisciplinary group or team (IDG/IDT) meetings are a necessary part of staying compliant and providing patient care – but they’re also a major investment of time and resources. For many, preparation takes hours…pages of patient notes need to be printed and distributed, patient orders gathered, calls made to the pharmacy, and sign-in sheets and…

2017 Merit-based Incentive Payment System Data Validation and Auditing

2017 Merit-based Incentive Payment System Data Validation and Auditing

In previous columns, we have discussed the roadmap to Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) strategy and documentation. Your documentation may be subject to an audit so, you will need to provide information to verify your MIPS participation. This column will begin to discuss the data validation and audit criteria. In the next column, we will…