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...
LeadingAge Assisted Living Salary & Benefits Report Release
The Assisted Living Salary and Benefits report is published in cooperation with LeadingAge and supported by the National Center for Assisted Living ...
Medication assisted treatment
There is no longer any debate about the fact that America is in the midst of an opioid crisis. There are now more Americans...
