Attention Texas Providers: Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) has announced a planned system outage, July 3-8, 2018. From 6:00pm on Tuesday, July 3, until 7:00am on Monday, July 9, all HHSC applications related to Texas LTC providers and processing will be unavailable as HHSC updates various hardware and software systems. … Read More
Summer PASRR training opportunities for Texas providers
Texas Health and Human Services (HHS) and Texas Medicaid & Healthcare Partnership (TMHP) are each offering new PASRR training opportunities for Texas nursing facilities in June and July. Read on to learn the details, then click the links to register. June PASRR/NFSS training webinars from TMHP Texas Medicaid & Healthcare … Read More
Texas Providers: Form 1013 discontinued as of May 31
Attention Texas Providers: On our Texas PASRR update webinar yesterday, Texas Health and Human Services (HHSC) made an important announcement about the discontinuation of Form 1013. Form 1013 is used when the nursing facility wants to change a negative PL1 that has already been submitted. The HHSC Intellectual and Developmental … Read More
[On-demand webinar] Will PBJ erase your star rating?
Your PBJ data is about to change your Five-Star rating. Is your organization ready? In a recent letter, CMS confirmed that, beginning in April 2018, it will use PBJ (Payroll-Based Journal) data to calculate staffing measures of the nursing home quality rating system. This means that staffing measures displayed on … Read More
[On-demand webinar] RCS-1 and more: SNF payment models on the horizon
When will RCS-1 become a fact of life? How will it affect SNF payments and workflow? Skilled nursing facilities may soon understand what kind of Medicare Part A payment reform is on the horizon and when it will begin. Last May, CMS signaled it is working on the Resident Classification … Read More