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Brace Yourself for PDPM: Knowing the Predicted Fiscal Impact is Your First Step

Posted on: October 11, 2018

Step one to ensuring your facility delivers positive patient outcomes, maintains regulatory compliance, and achieves financial viability in the New PDPM World is to perform a RUGs-to-PDPM Crosswalk on all your patients.

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Tags: CMS Update 2018, Payment Reform, Patient-Driven Payment Model, PDPM

Home Health Providers: Leverage QAPI Plan to Prep for PDGM?

Posted on: October 1, 2018

In the recently updated Conditions of Participation, CMS spells out what they expect from a QAPI program. Additionally, the final draft of the interpretive guidelines (IG) for the Home Health Agency Conditions of Participation (CoP) was released last month.

How can agencies use this already mandatory requirement to help prepare them for the expected changes coming in 2020 with the proposed Patient Driven Groupings Model (PDGM)?

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Tags: Home Health, QAPI Plan, PDGM