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Over 58,000 long term care providers cared for more than 8 million people in 2012. Divided between adult day services, home healthcare, hospice, nursing homes and assisted living, long term care provides a valuable service for a significant portion of our population. As the baby boomer generation continues to age and Millennials approach middle...
The OASIS (Outcome and Assessment Information Set) data collection tool provides The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and commercial third-party payers’ evidence of the home care needed by your patients. Although the OASIS claim process can be cumbersome and time-consuming to complete, most clinical and operational health professionals can...
For long term care facilities, planning is key. Skilled facility managers know the number of residents they can house to ensure quality care is provided. Nursing managers and attending physicians work to create and implement personal care plans for long term care, in skilled nursing facilities, assisted living centers or long term rehabilitation...
Signing any contract or purchase agreement can be intimidating. Business professionals know not to enter into a contract lightly, understanding that a business must first evaluate many factors. Purchase agreements are contracts for goods or services that can be immensely valuable when done correctly, and highly detrimental when done without the...
Long term care facilities provide nursing and daily living assistance to our vulnerable populations. Geriatric patients, especially those over 85, represent a high proportion of this care. Patients with additional trauma or disability often make up the remaining population, as well as some hospice patients. One commonality across this patient...
Annually, 8,357,100 adults need long term care, including nursing facilities, home health, and hospice. Long term care is defined as care for adults who need assistance, medical and non-medical needs, such as with activities of daily living (ADLs) and administrative or financial tasks. The goal of long term care is to provide needed support to...
The introduction of value-based care brings many challenges. While the concept is inherently sound and in many ways overdue, the switch from volume- or service-based remuneration to value- or outcome-based reimbursement is far from simple. This is particularly true for community health centers (CHCs) that operate in Medicaid expansion states and...
Americans are living longer than ever before, and nearly 70 percent of those older than 65 will at some point require support in dealing with the demands of daily life. Nearly all of those who will find themselves in that situation share one belief—there's no place like home. As a result, home care is one of the fastest growing industries in the...
As of late, financing healthcare has become a popular topic in politics. While many sides debate insurance payments and premiums, patients still need day-to-day care. The local community health center is a frontline provider of this daily patient care, including both mental and physical health. From 2006-2008, community health centers averaged...
The regulations regarding the collection of performance data as required by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) came into effect in January 2017 and is of tremendous importance to primary care providers (PCPs) because it enacts revised methods of clinician reimbursement for the treatment of Medicare patients. This...
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