Last month, SimpleLTC, in conjunction with Seagrove Rehab Partners, offered one of our most popular webinar training series ever, with over 2,000 people attending the two training sessions. With barely a year to prepare, providers are hungry for information about PDPM. Based on the hundreds of questions asked during the webinars, … Read More
[On-demand webinar] PDPM demystified: What you need to know about the new payment model
Say goodbye to RUGs-IV and say hello to PDPM. The much-anticipated RCS-1 system is no longer on the horizon. Instead, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published the Patient-Driven Payment Model (PDPM) in the FY 2019 SNF PPS Proposed Rule. The PDPM payment model for PPS SNF patients is proposed … Read More
Important: Upcoming Texas HHSC systems outage, July 3-8
Attention Texas Providers: Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) has announced a planned system outage, July 3-8, 2018. From 6:00pm on Tuesday, July 3, until 7:00am on Monday, July 9, all HHSC applications related to Texas LTC providers and processing will be unavailable as HHSC updates various hardware and software systems. … Read More
Summer PASRR training opportunities for Texas providers
Texas Health and Human Services (HHS) and Texas Medicaid & Healthcare Partnership (TMHP) are each offering new PASRR training opportunities for Texas nursing facilities in June and July. Read on to learn the details, then click the links to register. June PASRR/NFSS training webinars from TMHP Texas Medicaid & Healthcare … Read More
Texas Providers: Form 1013 discontinued as of May 31
Attention Texas Providers: On our Texas PASRR update webinar yesterday, Texas Health and Human Services (HHSC) made an important announcement about the discontinuation of Form 1013. Form 1013 is used when the nursing facility wants to change a negative PL1 that has already been submitted. The HHSC Intellectual and Developmental … Read More