Re: PPS -Reply -Reply -Forwarded

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I will try this again.

In response to:

We are a medicare-certified

outpatient rehab agency that contracts with SNFs. Most

of the SNFs went under PPS in July. We have reduce our

staff size in most of these facilities because of the reimbursement,

but most of my problems stem from the lack of knowledge on

the part of the nursing home about the regs.....can u tell me

what ur experiences have been?

To the entire list:

>>>We go under PPS Jan 1, 1999. My biggest questions at this point are

" what rehab services I should provide on Saturday, Sunday, and

holidays... in order to maximize reimbursement, yet keep salary costs to

a

minimum... as much as possible. Also, do we always have to use day

1-5 as our reference assessment period or can we use grace days on

weekend admits and shift our reference assessment period to days 2

through 6 or 3 through 7... etc.

I work in a hospital-based SNF with an average LOS of ~15 days. This

makes things a little different for us. Our therapists are employees of

the

hospital, so we do not have any services that are " contracted. "

Any input or help would be appreciated,

Tina

Indpls, IN

>>> 09/03/98 09:50am >>>

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