Staffing recruiting and other changes continue to affect skilled nursing facilities across the country during these challenging economic times. Rising labor costs and inflation, as well as reimbursement updates, have also added to these challenges. Recently, Net Health partnered with Skilled Nursing News to conduct a survey and learn more about the top trends, challenges…
It’s time to address the elephant in the room. There’s one big thing that stands in the way of truly productive, profitable, patient-centric care in senior living and skilled nursing facilities, and it’s not the care team. It’s the administrative burden. Countless labor-intensive and hard-paper manual processes impede rehab workflow and do little to optimize care…
Skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) are responsible for providing quality care to their patients of all different levels of needs. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, these facilities have also faced unexpected challenges that may have impacted compliance, reimbursement, revenue services and more. But effective implementations can be made to ensure that SNFs continue to…
Underreporting of Medical Director Hours in SNFs In the second quarter of 2022 (the most recent data available), 37% of Skilled Nursing Facilities nationwide reported no medical director hours to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) through the Staffing Data Submission Payroll-Based Journal (PBJ) system, despite federal laws and regulations requiring a physician…
It’s well-known within healthcare circles that falls – especially those experienced by older adults – can be costly to individuals as well as care facilities. Despite this, one recent survey of more than 400 senior care facility executives revealed some numbers that may still surprise you. Based on responses from those interviewed for this 2022…
By Karen Sartin, MS, CCC-SLPProduct Analyst, Net Health The CMS 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule introduced five new CPT codes for physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech-language pathology, all related to the use of technologies for the collection of non-physiological data outside the clinic setting to inform ongoing treatment planning, also known as…
By Robert Clark, PT, DPT, GCS, PSM, PSPOProduct Manager, Net Health Dementia is an umbrella term used to describe the loss of memory, language, problem-solving and other thinking abilities that are severe enough to interfere with a person’s activities of daily living (ADL). And, it can worsen over time. Alzheimer’s is the most common cause…
The relationship between social determinants of health (SDOH) and improved patient outcomes is a well-established idea1. And, like so many aspects related to healthcare in the U.S., there’s an ICD-10 code for that. Specifically, ICD-10 Z Codes2 relate to nonmedical factors affecting our patients’ health which can affect rehab therapy journeys. Z codes Z55 through…
By Tannus Quatre, PT, MBAVice President of Therapy Sales, Net Health Wearing your rehab therapist hat, think of something you’re dissatisfied with right now. It can be something wide-ranging like the way your current reimbursement model works or how your clinic or department communicates throughout the day. Or, it can be highly specific – say,…
One could make a valid argument that when you combine the care needs of patients and residents with the daily tasks required of providers and administrators, few healthcare entities are forced to juggle more and multitask better than senior living facilities. According to one recent study funded by the National Investment Center for Senior Housing…
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