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AI-powered cognitive priming helps one PT clinic improve care and boost its bottom line

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Matt Mastenbrook, DPT, clinic manager and treating physical therapist at Baylor Scott & White Institute for Rehabilitation, says one of his first goals as a manager was to set his clinic apart from the many others in the area. And leading-edge technology would be a key change agent.

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The Rising Importance Of Social Workers On The Home Health Team

Home Health Care

Addressing social determinants of health (SDoH) is becoming increasingly important due to new regulations from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the shift toward value-based care payment models. Social workers also can help patients adjust to the ways their life will change following a serious illness diagnosis.

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Medicare Beneficiaries Overwhelmingly Against Proposed Home Health Payment Cuts

Home Health Care

It has been well documented how home health providers and advocacy organizations feel about the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) home health proposed payment rule for CY 2023. What has not been, up to this point, is how Medicare beneficiaries feel about it.

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Report to Congress: Unified Payment for Medicare-Covered Post-Acute Care 

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Post-acute care (PAC) represents an important component of the health care delivery system in the United States, with the Medicare fee-for-service program spending more than $57 billion on these services in 2019 (The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), 2021a).

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Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Patient Assessment Instrument (IRF-PAI) Quarterly Q&As, March 2022, Consolidated June 2020 to March 2022

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare.

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New Study Raises ‘Important’ Questions About Differences In Post-Acute Care Utilization Between FFS Medicare, MA Beneficiaries

Home Health Care

An extensive body of research exists highlighting the differences in post-acute care utilization between fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare beneficiaries and those enrolled in Medicare Advantage (MA). Of those, 815 beneficiaries were Medicare Advantage enrollees, with the remainder – 1,542 individuals – on FFS Medicare.

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Industry Fragmentation Has Left Home Health Providers ‘Exploited’ by Medicare Advantage

Home Health Care

The highly fragmented home health industry has turned providers into commodities, at least in the eyes of Medicare Advantage (MA) organizations. Because there are so many providers looking to make managed care inroads, the rates home health operators receive from MA sources are typically far below what they get from fee-for-service Medicare.