Violet Tschetter Memorial Home to close by May 10
The Board of Directors
for Violet Tschetter Memorial Home, Huron SD has notified the South Dakota
Department of Health (DOH) that the long-term care facility will...
CMS Guidance on Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule Reporting
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued additional guidance for laboratories that are required to report private payer data for laboratory tests...
SDAHO hosts Dimensions Statewide User Group Meeting
The South Dakota Association of
Healthcare Organizations (SDAHO) hosted its third annual Dimensions Statewide
User Group (SUG) meeting on March 7. The meeting was held in...
Don’t leave money on the table: How to bill for temporary physicians at your...
Temporary physicians fill an important role in ensuring your patients continue to get quality care when you're short staffed. But billing for these...
CMS Data on Geographic Variation in the Medicare Program Released
Centers of Medicare and Medicaid posted the annual release of the Geographic Variation Public Use File, or PUF, with data for 2007 to 2017....
CMS Nursing Home 5 Star Freeze Update
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) provided LeadingAge with information that the 5-Star Health Inspection Rating freeze will be lifted soon and that...
Details Beyond the Waiver: Addiction and Opioid Use Disorder Training for Health Care Professionals
Physicians, nurses and other practitioners have important roles to play combating opioid abuse. This may be a new and uncomfortable role for some,...
Post-Acute Quality Reporting Programs
Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Provider Threshold Report (PTR) and both the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities (IRF) and Long-term Care Hospitals (LTCH) provider preview reports have...
CDC and Department of Health Data Use Agreement
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion (DHQP) is entering into a new agreement with the South Dakota...
CMS Hospital Quality Star Ratings Update
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) as announced earlier this year, recently updated the overall hospital quality star ratings on the Hospital Compare...
