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

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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. Long‐term acute care hospitals. Partial hospitalization programs. Short-term acute care hospitals. Critical access hospitals.

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Why Care Coordination Is Important for Home Health and Hospice Agencies

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Examples of care coordination may include structured meetings such as routine, formal case conferencing with the patient representative or a regularly scheduled, interdisciplinary team meeting to coordinate care, discuss goals, map out roles and responsibilities, and address any barriers preventing the patient from receiving services.

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Teamwork Makes Every Nursing Team Better

Minority Nurse

The dangers of an ineffective team are many; the worst outcome is when it causes patient or nurse harm. For example, patients who leave the hospital without a clear plan or a plan they need help understanding are more likely to be readmitted within 30 days. That also affects a hospital’s numbers,” she says. “It’s

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