It is challenging being a Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) in 2024! Not that it has ever been easy, but there are so many regulations, and the increased challenges of staffing and infection control since COVID and the PHE have really raised the bar. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) monitors quality issues and has devised a terminology for those facilities deemed high risk with a history of serious quality issues. These facilities are
April 18, 2024
Why Healthcare Providers Need to Develop Organizational Intelligence, Part 3: Organizational Intelligence and Learning
This article is the third in a multi-part series discussing the concepts of organizational intelligence and their impact on healthcare providers. You can read Part 1 here or Part 2 here. How your organization receives, processes, and acts on information is at the heart of understanding your Organizational Intelligence. Loop Learning is an excellent model that can help you quickly identify at what level your business is operating – and how to help it evolve
In 1977, physicians and other practitioners were mandated to be excluded from participation in Medicare and Medicaid by the Medicare-Medicaid Anti-Fraud and Abuse Amendments, Public Law 95-142 if convicted of program-related crimes. In 1981, the Civil Monetary Penalties Law (CMPL), Public 97-35, authorized the Office of Inspector General (OIG) to impose Civil Monetary Penalties (CMPs) and exclusions against persons having submitted false of fraudulent claims to Medicare and Medicaid. In 1996-1997 the OIG’s authority also
