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- Consider best practice for aide competency after CoP updates
Agencies should take a close look at how they conduct competency evaluations to ensure compliance now that CMS has released changes to existing regulations.
- Implement a process for patient condition changes between PDGM periods
Agencies should consider establishing processes for how to handle changes in a patient’s condition between the first and second 30-day payment periods under the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM).
- Changes to verbal rights notification finalized, don't lose sight of requirements
Agencies will no longer be required to provide patients with a verbal notification of all their rights — with two exceptions — based on changes finalized in a rule designed to reduce burden in the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
- Costs and benefits of final rule to reduce health care provider burden
In its final rule about lessening health care providers’ burden, CMS estimates providers will save money on an annual or biennial basis for several things.
- New OASIS Q&A offers insight into codes to include on M1021, M1023
The latest release of CMS’s quarterly OASIS Q&As delves into issues around the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) and OASIS-D1, providing much-needed guidance for agencies on how to meet CMS expectations for the assessment heading into 2020.
- CMS reduces behavioral adjustments, moves ahead with RAP phase-out plan
CMS has eased off of plans to implement an 8.01% decrease in agencies’ payments due to changes it anticipates agencies will make in response to the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) in 2020.
