Relias

MAY 6, 2022

The provider-specific PEPPER analyzes Medicare data and statistics from discharges and services compared with every hospice nationwide. PEPPER is a yearly report given to hospices, skilled nursing facilities, inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation centers, and other U.S. Jurisdictional or Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC).

Hospice 98

Hospice Medicare Rehabilitation Healthcare 98

Relias

APRIL 28, 2023

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) requires all health facilities in the Medicare program to track and report data reflecting pressure injury development on all clients. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s patient safety tool, Preventing Pressure Ulcers in Hospitals , also provides helpful guidance.

Medicare 98

Medicare Healthcare Patient Safety Rehabilitation 98

Relias

DECEMBER 8, 2022

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.

Medicare 52

Medicare Hospice Rehabilitation Hospitals 52

Relias

JUNE 19, 2023

Since 2016, fewer patients with severe wounds have received care in long-term care hospitals, and more patients have gone to less costly facilities like inpatient rehabilitation and skilled nursing facilities. billion in fiscal year 2016 to $2.01 billion in fiscal year 2018.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Rehabilitation Medicare Clinic 52

Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 29, 2022

I was entrusted to a mental hospital in Brattleboro, Vermont at age fifteen. This would be the first of many unsuccessful psychiatric hospital stays. I begin looking further into more advanced rehabs, but research has shown me that I couldn’t find one mental rehabilitation center that accepted Medicaid or Medicare in the US.

Mental Health 52

Mental Health Substance Abuse Rehabilitation Medicare 52