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Understanding the PEPPER Can Reduce Home Health and Skilled Nursing Audit Risks

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Every year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) releases the Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER). Utilizing data from the most recent three calendar years, the PEPPER offers providers specific Medicare data statistics for discharges or services that may be vulnerable to improper payments.

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Grow Your Own Home Health Aides To Capture New Business

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Medicare and other payers also encourage home-based care when appropriate to keep the cost of care low compared with skilled nursing facilities and hospitals. You also want to be sure they can engage students with the curriculum. Financial Drain From Employee Churn. “We Recruiting Students for the Certification Program.

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Future-Proof Your Workforce: Post-Acute Care Reskilling and Upskilling

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Leaders in assisted living, skilled nursing, home health, rehab therapy, wound care, and hospice know you can’t hire all the skills your organization will need tomorrow and in the future. In a learning culture, engaged care teams embrace: • Creative problem solving and knowledge sharing. • Leverage a Continuous Learning Culture.

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