Relias

APRIL 28, 2023

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) requires all health facilities in the Medicare program to track and report data reflecting pressure injury development on all clients. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s patient safety tool, Preventing Pressure Ulcers in Hospitals , also provides helpful guidance.

Medicare 98

Medicare Healthcare Patient Safety Hospitals 98

Relias

DECEMBER 8, 2022

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

Medicare 52

Medicare Hospitals Rehabilitation Medicaid 52

Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 29, 2022

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.

Mental Health 52

Mental Health Substance Abuse Rehabilitation Medicare 52