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The Center for Post Acute Excellence Update is a companion e-newsletter to the new HCPro Website The Center for Post Acute Excellence. This monthly, electronic resource helps you foster discussion among staff members, keeps your staff current on the latest rules and guidelines, and helps you gauge how new regulatory changes will impact your organization today and in the future.

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The Center for Post Acute Excellence Update

Issue 5, May 7, 2012

• Complimentary Education and Dinner with Regulatory Expert Diane Brown

  Join HCPro for the free, live program Corporate Compliance: Practical Approaches to Ongoing Risk...

• Notes from the April Skilled Nursing Facility Open Door Forum

  CMS covered a number of topics during the April 12 SNF Open Door Forum (ODF), leading off with an...

• Notice: Last Issue of The Center for Post Acute Excellence Update

  HCPro is sorry to report that this is the last issue of The Center for Post Acute Excellence...

Issue 3, March 5, 2012

• HHS confirms ICD-10 delay: What does it mean for you?

  By Andrea Kraynak, CPC It’s no longer a mere possibility; HHS has confirmed its intent to...

• Congress approves therapy cap extension

  With approval of the Payroll Tax Cut Conference Agreement, Congress has moved to extend the therapy...

• CMS proposal: Report and return self-identified overpayments

  CMS recently proposed that providers and suppliers must report and return self-identified...

Issue 4, April 4, 2012

• CMS releases memo clarifying SNF PPS payment and assessment completion policies

  CMS recently released a clarification memo that addresses certain SNF PPS payment and assessment...

• MedPAC Releases Annual Report to the Congress

  On March 15, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) released its annual Report to the...