Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released two comprehensive toolkits on telehealth that are specific to general practitioners as well as providers treating patients with End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD). Under President Trump’s leadership to respond to the need to limit the spread…… Continue reading CMS Releases Telehealth Toolkits for General Practitioners and ESRD Providers
3-20-2020 – CMS – Home Heath Face to Face and Waiver 1135 Update
Sharon Hamilton MS, RN, CFDS Clinical Consultant, Briggs Healthcare If you were not signed into the CMS call this morning here is the latest information regarding the Face to Face and waiver 1135 situation. The statutory requirements regarding the patient being rural and limited to certain originating sites has been waived for the required physician…… Continue reading 3-20-2020 – CMS – Home Heath Face to Face and Waiver 1135 Update
Minnesota AL Providers: New Assisted Living Licensure Law
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The Minnesota Department of Health, Health Regulation Division is writing to share important news about Minnesota’s new assisted living licensure law. We understand that as providers you have many concerns related to managing your agency’s response to COVID-19. We will send this information again in…… Continue reading Minnesota AL Providers: New Assisted Living Licensure Law
The Joint Commission – Effective July 2020 – Revisions to National Patient Safety Goals
Sharon Hamilton MS, RN, CFDS Clinical Consultant, Briggs Healthcare Effective July 2020, The Joint Commission approved changes to its National Patient Safety Goals (NPSGs) for all applicable accreditation programs. Because the NPSGs identify high-priority patient safety topics that are assessed during every accreditation survey, The Joint Commission periodically reviews them using contemporary literature, internal data,…… Continue reading The Joint Commission – Effective July 2020 – Revisions to National Patient Safety Goals
Medicare FFS Response to the Public Health Emergency on COVID-19…Revised Again
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare I blogged early this week COVID-19 emergency declaration waivers. CMS revised and updated this information via MLN Matters Number: SE20011 on March 18, 2020. This MLN Matters is a definite must-read. You’ll find updated information on Telehealth – look for the red ink on pages…… Continue reading Medicare FFS Response to the Public Health Emergency on COVID-19…Revised Again
CMS Delays the Release of the October 2020 MDS Item Set
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Just a few minutes ago (March 19, 2020), CMS announced that it is delaying the MDS 3.0 v1.18.1 release. This notification is posted at https://qtso.cms.gov/news-and-updates/cms-delaying-implementation-october-1-2020-minimum-data-set-30-v1181-release and https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-Assessment-Instruments/NursingHomeQualityInits/MDS30RAIManual. (The former is the QTSO website; latter is the MDS 3.0 RAI Manual website.) Please note the comments…… Continue reading CMS Delays the Release of the October 2020 MDS Item Set
SNF Claims Incorrectly Cancelled
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare CMS posted this notification today in MLN Connects – March 19, 2020: SNF Claims Incorrectly Cancelled From January 26 through February 16, 2020, a software issue caused Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) claims to be incorrectly cancelled with a message that there was no three-day qualifying…… Continue reading SNF Claims Incorrectly Cancelled
OASIS-E Draft Instrument Posted by CMS
Sharon Hamilton MS, RN, CFDS Clinical Consultant, Briggs Healthcare Get an early look at the Standardized Patient Assessment Data Elements (SPADEs) Click on the link in the copy below for the data sets. NOW AVAILABLE: Draft OASIS-E Instrument The draft OASIS-E All Items Instrument is now available in the Downloads section of the OASIS Data…… Continue reading OASIS-E Draft Instrument Posted by CMS
COVID-19 Resources from AMDA
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine has a COVID-19 website with great information for all clinicians I mentioned some of these resources (sample letters for example) last week in this blog. Here’s what you’ll see on this website: The above 6 blue boxes…… Continue reading COVID-19 Resources from AMDA
Focused Infection Control Surveys in Nursing Facilities
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Texas Health and Human Services as posted an 18-page document on specifics of a focused survey in LTC facilities. At this point, we have not seen any specifics from CMS proper except for the March 4th posting of QSO-20-12-All. The state of Texas is well-known…… Continue reading Focused Infection Control Surveys in Nursing Facilities
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