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What You Need to Know Before Providing Outpatient Therapy at a SNF

Most skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) have Medicare provider numbers that allow them to treat and bill both Medicare Part A and Medicare Part B patients. Often the therapists who treat the short term sub-acute rehab patients develop such a good rapport with their patients that the patients want to return for continued therapy after they are discharged home.Should the SNF provider allow patients to come from the community into the SNF for outpatient therapy treatments?…

F-Tags in Review: F800 Food and Nutrition Services

F-Tag 800 states: “The facility must provide each resident with a nourishing, palatable, well-balanced diet that meets his or her daily nutritional and special dietary needs, taking into consideration the preferences of each resident.” The facility must present residents with a nutritional meal that meets individual dietary requirements. The purpose is to maintain the resident’s weight or to increase/reduce their weight to retain a healthy lifestyle. Residents have the right to make choices regarding their…

What is Considered an E-Visit?

Medicare e-visits occur between a doctor, Notice of Privacy Practices (NPP), various other provider types and a patient. These e-visits were designed to occur through an online portal but with more recent laxities based upon the COVID-19 pandemic, Medicare is allowing additional provider types to provide telehealth and virtual visits. This has occurred as a result of the current national emergency and states applying for waiver 1135 relief. Many states are waiving co-pays and prior…