by Matt McGarvey | Feb 24, 2021 | Patient Driven Payment Model, PDPM, Reimbursement, Skilled Nursing Facilities, SLP Component
While it certainly seems like a lifetime ago since the beginning of PDPM back in 2019, we as an industry have 16-months of experience under our belts. Even though Covid has impacted most of that time frame, trends such as those in the PDPM SLP...
by Matt McGarvey | Sep 17, 2020 | Covid, Patient Driven Payment Model, PDPM, Skilled Nursing Facilities, SLP Component, Speech Therapy
One of the great things about PDPM is being able to precisely measure the value of the nursing home speech therapy department numerically via the SLP component. SNF Administrators can now easily measure the return on investment of the speech therapy department, as...
by Matthew McGarvey | Aug 25, 2020 | Patient Driven Payment Model, PDPM, Skilled Nursing Facilities, SLP Component, Speech Therapy
Even before the Covid pandemic, skilled nursing facilities were faced with tight operating margins, staffing issues, and reimbursement challenges. Administrators and operators are wise to look at each department and calculate the ROI (return on investment). The...
by Matthew McGarvey | Jul 23, 2020 | Covid, Patient Driven Payment Model, PDPM, Reimbursement, Skilled Nursing Facilities, SLP Component, Speech Therapy
Speech-language pathologists in the medical setting have played a critical role during the Covid-19 pandemic by, among other things, ensuring medically fragile patients are on the safest yet least restrictive diet in order to prevent aspiration. Because of the timing...
by Matthew McGarvey | Jul 17, 2020 | Patient Driven Payment Model, PDPM, Skilled Nursing Facilities, SLP Component, Speech Therapy
CMS has made avoiding re-hospitalizations a priority for Skilled Nursing Facilities. The following five conditions account for 78% of all 30-day SNF re-hospitalizations. Unfortunately, all of these have been deemed as potentially avoidable. A strong nursing home...
by Matthew McGarvey | Jul 17, 2020 | Patient Driven Payment Model, PDPM, Reimbursement, Skilled Nursing Facilities, SLP Component, Speech Therapy
While many SNFs are struggling to rebuild census in the aftermath of Covid-19’s decimation, don’t be surprised if your speech therapy department is seeing an increasing amount of activity. A high-performing speech therapy department should be seeing each new admission...
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