The data in this article are focused on the use, covered charges, and Medicare program payments for skilled nursing services during calendar year 1987. Data for the period 1971-87 are included to show trends in the use and cost of skilled nursing facility services under the Medicare program....
Being a healthcare provider, especially in the management of a hospital, skilled nursing facility, or any Medicare-enrolled provider’s institution, understanding the Medicare Cost Report will greatly improve confidence in compliance... Medicare cost reporting is one of the most significant service com...
Less glamorous, but an interesting fact for startup entrepreneurs is that Louisville has the country's largest concentration of headquarters for aging-related businesses — i.e. nursing homes, rehab, hospice care, in-home health care. And with a gray wave headed for the country by 2035, Louis...
Taxpayers who receive wages, salaries, or self-employment income are required to payMedicare taxon all of their wages. Once there was a limit on the amount of income on which Medicare tax was assessed, but this was eliminated in 1993. Now all earned income of any kind is assessed a 2.9%...
Pre-Trend Tests to Examine Outcomes of Private Equity Nursing Homes and For-Profit Nursing Homes Without Private Equity Ownership Prior to Acquisition 1. Scheffler RM, Alexander LM, Godwin JR. Soaring private equity investment in the healthcare sector: consolidation accelerated, competition undermined,...
Too sick to be discharged to a skilled nursing home or rehabilitation facility, these patients were transferred instead to special hospitals known as long-term acute care hospitals (LTACHs). These hospitals specialize in weaning patients off ventilators and providing rehabilitation care, and they were...
Regarding the reach of the program, approximately 25% of Medicare patients hospitalized with HF are discharged to skilled nursing facilities/nursing homes and are not reached by the intervention. Addressing their transitional care needs requires modification of the intervention or development of a ...
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Often, some nursing home care can be covered with Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, or veterans benefits. Short-term stays in skilled nursing facilities for rehabilitation may be covered by Medicare, while indefinite stays in a nursing home will require some out-of-pocket payment for rent and...
The objective of this outcomes research study was to examine the effect of dietary supplementation of arginine on length of stay and cost of care in patients with decubitus ulcers in the acute-care and skilled nursing settings. A total of 91 adult patients in a South Texas hospital were ...