Ask the Payment Expert about … the new survey process
By
Patricia Boyer
Dec 06, 2017
How should our facility prepare for the new survey process?
CMS issues guidance on survey timing for facilities that change ownership
By
Tim Mullaney
Sep 10, 2013
Surveyors should prevent providers from being able to game the Medicare system through well-timed facility sales and purchases, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services instructed in a recent memorandum.
Ask the Payment Expert about … new and old survey processes
By
Patricia Boyer
Feb 08, 2018
With the new survey process, does that mean other survey types have gone away?
Super Tuesday: Earn free CE credit; take 3-line survey now and become eligible for $100 gift card
Jul 07, 2011
It’s time for the fourth in a series of McKnight’s Super Tuesday webinars! This Tuesday’s free webcast, “Taking stock of new survey realities,” will feature highly successful...
Preparation is key to better surveys, expert says
Jul 13, 2011
Preparation can help make annual inspection surveys go more smoothly, according to a provider who spoke yesterday afternoon during a McKnight’s Super Tuesday webinar.
Poll: Public’s concern over healthcare costs rising
Apr 30, 2008
Healthcare costs are the third-most common economic problem for U.S. residents, according to a poll released Tuesday by the Kaiser Family Foundation. More than one-fourth (28%) of respondents said the...
Patient advocates blast Stupak’s nursing home survey improvement act
Aug 27, 2010
A group of long-term care patient advocates on Thursday sent a letter to Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI), criticizing the lame-duck legislator’s new “Enhancing Quality through Survey System Improvements...
Ask the Nursing Expert about … documentation for new survey regulations
By
Judi Kulus, MSN, MAT, RN, NHA, RAC-MT, DNS-CT
Feb 08, 2018
For years I have referred to the State Operations Manual (SOM) Appendix P for guidance on the survey process. But the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently announced that Appendix P will be...
Trump administration scaling back nursing home fines: report
By
Elizabeth Newman
Jan 02, 2018
Shortly before President Donald Trump was inaugurated, the American Health Care Association sent him a letter asking for regulatory relief, with one of the group’s top executives later saying the...
Boomers healthy, conservative, new report finds
Jan 07, 2008
A quick glance at the oldest baby boomers: They’ve been married only once; they have 2.4 children average; and conservatives outnumber liberals by two to one.