Social Work Blog
DECEMBER 16, 2021
CSWs may participate in the QPP by earning a payment adjustment for Medicare Part B covered professional services based on a performance evaluation across different categories that focus on the quality of care provided to a patient. Medicare has identified 15 measures that CSWs may use to report quality services.
Relias
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Every year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) releases the Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER). Utilizing data from the most recent three calendar years, the PEPPER offers providers specific Medicare data statistics for discharges or services that may be vulnerable to improper payments.
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Social Work Blog
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
On July 7, 2022, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released its proposed rule of the Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) that announced proposed policy and practice changes for Medicare Part B payments beginning January 1, 2023. The proposed changes may impact social workers and other Medicare providers in various settings.
Social Workers Speak
APRIL 20, 2023
Keith Cunniffe is a member of NASW-NYS: “Here Comes Jimmy Hendrix”: A Psychiatrist and Patient Reconnect and Recollect Psychiatric Times Cunniffe: I started college at Fordham University in the fall of 1986 looking forward to making new friends and, hopefully, having a girlfriend.
Social Workers Speak
APRIL 20, 2023
Keith Cunniffe is a member of NASW-NYS: “Here Comes Jimmy Hendrix”: A Psychiatrist and Patient Reconnect and Recollect Psychiatric Times Cunniffe: I started college at Fordham University in the fall of 1986 looking forward to making new friends and, hopefully, having a girlfriend.
Beautiful Voyager
JANUARY 29, 2022
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. The entanglement of delusions and psychosis had long ago become too much to bear.
Relias
OCTOBER 20, 2021
In 2020, the American Psychiatric Association noted that? Several factors drove these concerns, such as licensing, Medicare/Medicaid?reimbursement, a recent study by Accenture , 81% of healthcare executives said their organizations are increasing their digital transformation efforts. The behavioral health sector is following suite.
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