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CMS Posts Additional Medicare Program Integrity Manual Updates
Changes Affect SNF Ownership Disclosures and Payment Accounts Beginning December 2022
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) provided a summary of updated provider enrollment instructions for Medicare providers, including SNFs. Specifically, it summarizes changes in Chapter 10 of the Medicare Program Integrity Manual instructions pertaining to:
- Ownership disclosures
- Electronic funds transfers (EFTs)
- Special payment addresses
The Effective Date and Implementation for these additional changes is December 5, 2022, and are detailed in CMS Transmittal R11682PI Change Request 12880 issued on November 4, 2022. These changes affect SNF ownership disclosures and payment accounts.
AHCA recommends that SNF administrative and billing staff review the changes in a summary developed by AHCA.
For your convenience, AHCA has merged this new information for the December 5, 2022 effective date to the changes effective January 6, 2023 contained in Transmittal R11701PI Change Request (CR) 12865 that the association announced earlier this week.
Note: A member log-in is required to view the summary.
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That's a wrap for DON Boot Camp!
Today concludes our four day DON Boot Camp. We've had a full house at the K-State Olathe Campus this week with our Annual DON Boot Camp. With Linda Farrar facilitating and our beyond amazing panel of speakers, we hope our attendees have a wealth of knowledge to take back to their communities.
Many thank you's to our speakers, vendors, sponsors, attendees and especially to Linda Farrar for making this another successful event!
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Parkinson Discusses AHCA’s Efforts To Improve Seniors’ Lives
Provider Magazine (11/16, Zargar, 151K) reports AHCA/NCAL President and CEO Mark Parkinson "recently joined the LTC Heroes podcast to discuss the work that he and his team are doing to improve the lives of seniors." Parkinson said, "We want to create great experiences and a great setting for our residents while they’re alive." Parkinson shared "the innovative measures AHCA has taken to help make care more accessible," and discussed "how AHCA is advocating for fairer wages for long term care employees." Parkinson said, "We’re advocating against negative regulatory proposals, like the idea of requiring 4.1 hours of direct care per resident, whether the money is provided or not." Because "there is much to be done in terms of filling out long term care teams," Parkinson "embraced an innovative idea that came from" AHCA Director of Clinical and Regulatory Services Pamela Truscott, who "proposed developing a temporary nursing aide program in which individuals could be trained in eight to twelve hours."
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Register Today!
Join AHCA/NCAL for the 2022 Population Health Management Summit, December 7-8 at The Gaylord National Harbor in Maryland and learn how to improve quality outcomes for your residents, position yourself well in the market, and manage risk within your community.
As value-based care and risk-based models move into the forefront, adapting these models for success in long term care and assisted living communities is paramount. Discover your options and decide which PHM path is the right choice for you.
Register today and take advantage of everything the summit has to offer!
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Members Only Nurse Advisory Call – Friday, November 18, 2022 at 10:00 AM
Please join KHCA’s Nurse Advisory Committee President, Teresa Coover on this month’s Members Only NAC Call to discuss concerns and issues you may be having, hot topics, and the latest happenings.
Microsoft Teams Meeting
Join on your computer, mobile app or room device
Meeting ID: 283 466 140 174
Passcode: UfqCAi
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November Reflections & Survey Findings
We will not have a Facility Standards call this Friday, but the latest Reflections and Survey Findings can be found below.
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Biden Administration Plans To Implement Minimum Staffing Requirement For Nursing Homes
The Washington Post (11/15, Rowland, 10.52M) reports that following "decades of accumulated evidence that residents suffer more complications, such as bed sores and falls, in nursing homes with inadequate numbers of front-line nurses and nursing assistants," the Biden Administration "has set in motion plans for a federal minimum staffing requirement for the nation’s 15,500 nursing homes." The nursing home "industry contends minimum staff mandates of 4.1 hours per resident per day would cost up to $10 billion per year and are unworkable because of a shortage of workers willing to do the job." AHCA President and CEO Mark Parkinson said, "It’s one thing to announce we are going to get all these workers in all these buildings, but are we as a society willing to pay for it? So far the answer has been no." Imposing such "a broad mandate does not make sense, he said." Parkinson added, "The administration can propose it and may require it to be done...but the workers are not there and it will not happen."
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Member Spotlight: Sharon Lane Health and Rehabilitation -Shawnee, KS
Sharon Lane Health and Rehabilitation is located at 10315 Johnson Dr. in Shawnee and is a 78-bed nursing home facility, founded over 60 years ago. The owners are Harry and Connie Baum and they have been in the Long-Term Care Business for more than twenty-eight years. Angela Moore is the Administrator, Angela is also on the KHCA Board as the Facility Standards Vice President.
Their mission is focused around a resident-centered concept that attempts to accommodate the resident’s individual needs and gives them the freedom to continue to, as much as possible, make their own choices and decisions in life.
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𝗩𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿—𝗖𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗱 (𝗥𝗔𝗖-𝗖𝗧®) 𝗖𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 - 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟮
Increase your knowledge of clinical assessment and care planning, completion of the MDS, the regulations surrounding the RAI/MDS process, and managing the PDPM by attending an AAPACN Resident Assessment Coordinator—Certified (RAC-CT) certification workshop. Having the RAC-CT credential behind your name shows that you are a knowledgeable and capable MDS professional.
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Webinar: Survey Success! Avoiding Top Citations. Post Survey Activities: Developing Effective Plan of Correction & IDR
12/6/2022 1:30PM-2:30PM
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Webinar: The Proficient Infection Preventionist Series: Astute Survey Preparedness & Application of Infection Control Regulatory Requirements
12/20/2022 1:30PM-2:30PM
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Looking for options for required Staff In-Service?
KHCA’s online learning platform is BACK! We’ve loaded the in-services for SNF and for AL first. Many more education sessions to come.
Questions about education can be directed to Polly Berkley VP of Operations and Education.
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Kansas Health Care Association and the Kansas Center for Assisted Living
1100 SW Gage Blvd. | PO Box 4770 | Topeka, KS 66604
PH: 785-267-6003 FAX: 785-267-0833
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