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Respecting Choices Facilitator Certification to be Offered at the SDAHO Partners In Care Conference on April 24

Education News
The implementation of Advance Care Planning has the potential to reduce the cost of medical care at the end-of-life, improve patient-centered care and provide...

How much revenue do physicians generate on behalf of their affiliated hospitals?

SDAHO Enterprises
Merritt Hawkins, the nation’s leading physician search firm, periodically tracks this key metric through our Physician Inpatient/Outpatient Revenue Survey.   The 2019 version of this...

Trump’s Budget Proposal for Medicaid Changes

Federal News
By Adam Cancryn with PoliticoPro ​The Trump administration is calling once again for a broad overhaul of Medicaid as part of its budget request...

Trump budget could save $69 billion on drug costs

Federal News
By Sarah Karlin-Smith with PoliticoPro ​The White House's proposed fiscal 2020 budget includes a slew of changes to Medicare, Medicaid, the FDA and the 340B...

PBS Focus: Avera St. Benedict Hospital – Parkston

State News

Updated: FDA Commissioner Gottlieb to step-down.

Federal News
POLITICO: Adriel Bettelheim, Sarah Karlin-Smith, Sarah Owermohle, Helena Bottemiller Evich and Alice Miranda Ollstein contributed to this report. FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, an unusually...

Violet Tschetter Memorial Home to close by May 10

State News
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

Federal News
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

Member News
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 facility

SDAHO Enterprises
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

Federal News
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

Federal News
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

Quality News
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

Long Term Care News
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

State News
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

Quality News
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

Long Term Care News
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

Quality News
There is no longer any debate about the fact that America is in the midst of an opioid crisis. There are now more Americans...

Hearings on the hill

Federal News
Busy week next week on the Hill regarding healthcare hot topics. 03/05/19 10:00 AM ESTHearing: Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions CommitteeThe Senate Health, Education,...

SB 118 – The ‘MOST’ bill

State News
SB 118,  the Medical Order for Scope of Treatment (MOST) is a patient-centered, advance care planning tool and actionable medical order between a patient...
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