“Tick, Tick … Boom!,” a lesser known musical by composer Jonathan Larson, who won a Pulitzer and three Tony Awards for his musical “Rent,” opens with a ticking sound. “The sound you are hearing is not ...

Few can argue that stakeholders have worked hard to get up to speed on the Patient-Driven Payment Model. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has conducted a helpful awareness blitz leading up ...

On October 1, 2019, CMS implemented a new case-mix classification model called the Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM). PDPM replaced the prior case-mix classification model, the Resource Utilization ...

Only a few months after CMS massively changed how skilled nursing facilities are reimbursed for therapy services, the pandemic hit and threw long-term care operations into a tailspin. That makes it ...