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Understanding the PEPPER Can Reduce Home Health and Skilled Nursing Audit Risks

Relias

Every year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) releases the Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER). Inpatient psychiatric facilities. Inpatient rehabilitation facilities. Long‐term acute care hospitals. Partial hospitalization programs. Short-term acute care hospitals.

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What I Learned About Navigating the Mental Health System

Beautiful Voyager

I was entrusted to a mental hospital in Brattleboro, Vermont at age fifteen. This would be the first of many unsuccessful psychiatric hospital stays. I begin looking further into more advanced rehabs, but research has shown me that I couldn’t find one mental rehabilitation center that accepted Medicaid or Medicare in the US.