tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2014 Issue 24

Performance: PAC Settings: Prepare for More Transparency of Your Staffing Ups and Downs

IMPACT Act introduces new quality measures. All eyes will be on your staffing turnover rates when the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation (IMPACT) Act of 2014 rolls out. In addition to standardizing patient assessments, this new legislation, signed into law on Oct. 6, 2014, aims to create a better quality comparing system across post-acute facilities.  Affected settings include long term care hospitals (LTCHs), home health agencies (HHAs), inpatient rehab facilities (IRFs), and skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), and policymakers want to see your staffing stats as part of your facility’s profile when the new quality comparing methods hit...

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