Long-Term Care Survey Alert
ADD-ON DROP COULD SINK SKILLED NURSING FACILITIES, STUDY SAYS
Unless Congress acts fast, temporary Medicare payment add-ons that were first given to skilled nursing facilities in 1999 will expire Oct. 1 That could create major access problems for all patients not just Medicare patients, according to a report in the September/October issue of the journal Health Affairs. The report notes that the add-ons are keeping many SNFs afloat, and that their expiration could have dire consequences for the long-term care industry. The House added $2 billion in payments over 10 years in legislation (H.R. 4954) passed this summer. The measure also included a prescription drug benefit and about $30 billion for providers over the next decade. At press time, the Senate was reportedly considering $30 to $50 billion in provider relief .
Long-Term Care Survey Alert
- Survey Management:
LESSONS LEARNED FROM A SURPRISE IJ CITATION
Waterman Village in Mt. Dora, FL had no idea what was coming last September when [...] - Quality Initiative:
PILOT QUALITY INITIATIVE A STEADY RIDE FOR MOST FACILITIES
If the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' pilot Nursing Home Quality Initiative is any [...] - Quality Measures:
CMS SELECTS QUALITY MEASURES FOR NATIONAL REPORTING
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has selected chronic and post-acute quality measures for [...] - Quality Initiative:
FACILITIES GET TO PREVIEW QM SCORES BEFORE CMS POSTS THEM
While the national Nursing Home Quality Initiative has been pushed back until after the November [...] - Quality Assurance:
CMS CONTINUES QUEST FOR VALID QUALITY MEASURES
Wanted: quality measures that truly tell if a nursing facility is providing good care. The [...] - Resident Safety:
DONT LET BED SIDE RAILS BE A FAST TRACK TO DECERTIFICATION
How do surveyors view bed side rails?
As immediate jeopardy if a resident suffers a [...] - Risk Management:
JCAHO PROVIDES 6 STRATEGIES TO ENSURE BED SIDE RAIL SAFETY
The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations released a sentinel event alert on Sept. [...] - Infection Control:
CMS TRAINING MAY PAVE WAY TO CRACKDOWN ON VACCINATION SHORTFALLS
Where the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' training efforts go, survey citations often follow. [...] - LTC Financing:
ADD-ON DROP COULD SINK SKILLED NURSING FACILITIES, STUDY SAYS
Unless Congress acts fast, temporary Medicare payment add-ons that were first given to skilled nursing [...] - Quality Oversight:
CMS DIRECTS STATES ON HOW TO SPEND CIVIL MONETARY PENALTIES
Ever wonder what states do with the civil monetary penalties they collect from facilities for [...] - Quality of Life:
MEASURING QUALITY OF LIFE FOR VISION-IMPAIRED RESIDENTS
Vision impairment and blindness reduce the quality of life for many nursing home residents, but [...] - Alzheimers Disease:
RESEARCHERS DISCOVER POSSIBLE NEW TARGET FOR ALZHEIMERS TREATMENT
What's in an enzyme? Perhaps a new target for the battle against Alzheimer's disease. Researchers [...] - Side Rail Safety Assessment
