SNF high quality marks don't lead to lower death rate or readmission
Case Management Insider, December 16, 2014
If a skilled nursing facility gets high marks on quality measures it may have benefits for patients, but it doesn’t really make a difference when it comes to mortality risk or 30-day readmissions, says a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
What does this mean to case managers? You can still use the data to gauge the quality of care provide by a skilled-nursing facility, but it probably won’t tell you whether that facility will wind up sending a large proportion of patients back to your organization after discharge.
Related Products
Most Popular
- Articles
-
- Don't forget the three checks in medication administration
- Note similarities and differences between HCPCS, CPT® codes
- The consequences of an incomplete medical record
- Practice the six rights of medication administration
- Nursing responsibilities for managing pain
- Complications from immobility by body system
- Q&A: Primary, principal, and secondary diagnoses
- OB services: Coding inside and outside of the package
- Prevent dehydration with nursing interventions
- Skills of effective case managers
- E-mailed
-
- Correctly bill ancillary bedside procedures in addition to the room rate
- Coding tip: Watch for different codes for SI joint injections
- Q/A: Understand requirements for separately reporting CBC with manual differential
- Q/A: Coding infusions to correct low potassium levels
- Q&A: Utilization Review Committee Membership
- Q&A: Bill blood administration the same way for inpatient and outpatient accounts
- OB services: Coding inside and outside of the package
- Know the medical gas cylinder storage requirements
- Intravenous therapy guidelines
- ICD-10-CM coma, stroke codes require more specific documentation
- Searched