Much of what I know about success (or failure) in life, love and long-term care has been reinforced by lessons learned over years of hiking. As a result, I now take it as a point of professional pride that regardless of the challenge facing our profession, I can always find an analogy to the trail.
Attendees will learn to navigate today’s dramatically shifting regulatory landscape, and reap maximum payments, at a special McKnight’s webinar on May 23. “Regulatory and payment reforms: Surviving risks, mining opportunities” will start at 1 p.m. Eastern and offers 1 free continuing education credit.
I’d say the thing we write about most often in this line of work is payment issues. As a long-term care provider, you are eternally under pressure with whether there will be enough to pay for everything.
Sometimes well-meaning supervisors (and sometimes leaders who don’t want to do the hard work of dealing with problems) try to use appreciation as a “quick fix” for deeper issues that need to be addressed.
Most long-term care facilities would probably like to forget about last week. That’s because two figurative bombshells exploded.
Final preparations are underway for the 2016 ASCP Forum, an annual meeting of long-term care stakeholders. The American Society of Consultant Pharmacies event takes place April 11 and 12 at the Hilton Baltimore.
If you are a post-acute provider, the big health news last week was not Donald Trump unveiling his post-Obamacare blueprint. It was the fact that MedPAC is getting closer to a rather brazen new approach to post-acute payments: equal pay for equal work.
My friend Rich admittedly didn’t know much about the group of school kids he was about to oversee. But as a business manager, he told me he had his own favorite method of ironing out disagreements between two squabbling parties. Stop the emails, third-party negotiating and excuse-making. Just put them face-to-face in a room together.
Providers have an outstanding chance to polish their knowledge and skills in three key areas of long-term care Wednesday. McKnight’s 3rd Annual Fall Online Expo features nationally respected speakers addressing staffing, payment and quality delivery issues. All events, including up to three continuing education credits are free.
Medicare skilled nursing facilities would get a net 1.2% pay increase — totaling $430 million — in fiscal 2016 under a final rule issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services late Thursday.
