|
Cover
Rate Setting for DD, CAC, CADI and TBI Waivers Will Be Dramatically Different from Elderly Waiver Rate Setting
By Phil Manz
Before counties submit worksheets to the state to determine provider rates, they will have to work with providers to gather information that will fill in very detailed worksheets. Some terms in the various documents read more...
Lift Issue Moves to Political Arena
By Patti Cullen, CAE
The Association is sending a letter to the congressional delegation this week highlighting this issue and asking for their assistance in sending a message to the Secretary of Labor. Following is a brief excerpt from read more...
Did We Tell You About These Convention Activities?
By Cyndi Spencer
The MDS 3.0 Ask the Experts Answers Bar is your chance to bring MDS 3.0 questions to a team of experts each day. Silverchair Learning Systems is sponsoring an E-Learning Lab again this year; Expo Hall Bingo read more...
Give the Max to the Foundation and Win!
By Patti Cullen, CAE
What if you could help the Foundation win $1000 just by giving 10 bucks? On November 16th, 2010, Give to the Max Day, you can. On this day, Minnesotans come together to raise as much money as read more...
Legislative/On the Hill
Let’s Do the Wave
By Toby Pearson
In a stunning victory, Republicans swept into the majority in the Minnesota Senate for the first time in more than a generation, and by early Wednesday had followed that by also taking control of the House read more...
CEO Blog: We the People of Minnesota Have Spoken
By Patti Cullen, CAE
We know we have a great deal of work ahead of us in educating an almost totally brand new group of legislators—leadership, committee chairs, committee members. While most of our national representation read more...
Ask Not What We Can Do for You, Ask How You Can Help the Association Educate New Legislators
By Larry Johnson
SIXTY new legislators will take their seats when the 87th legislature convenes on January 4, 2011. With almost a 30% turnover in members, experience and knowledge of issues, we have a lot of work ahead of us read more...
State News
DHS Issues Final Reports on Elderly Waiver Consumer Experience Survey and Long Term Care Gaps Analysis
By Phil Manz
The conclusion and recommendations from the Elderly Waiver Consumer Experience Survey are: 1. Ensure that long-term care assessment and planning processes address quality of life and socialization read more...
National News
SNF PPS RUG-IV National Provider Call Will Include Q&As
By Doug Beardsley
For this call, scheduled for Tuesday, November 9, from 1-2:30 pm CT, CMS subject matter experts will review some of the significant changes associated with the RUG-IV read more...
CMS Issues Final Rule on Part B Therapy Provisions
By Patti Cullen, CAE
In the final rule, CMS reduced the cut to the expense portion of the Part B payment for multiple therapy procedures in a single day from 50% to 25%, a significant reduction and one that represents read more...
New OSHA Targets Released
By Doug Beardsley
The Occupational Health & Safety Administration has issued its new (2010) site specific targeting directive. As in past years, surveys of nursing and personal care facilities will focus on ergonomic stressors read more...
GAO Issues Report on Guardianship System Flaws
By Patti Cullen, CAE
GAO could not determine whether allegations of abuse by guardians are widespread; however, GAO identified hundreds of allegations of physical abuse, neglect and financial exploitation by guardians in 45 read more...
MDS Validation Reports and Medicare Payments
By Doug Beardsley
CMS reminds nursing facility providers that MDS 3.0 Validation Reports can be obtained in CASPER when you log in with your MDS INDIVIDUAL ID. Please see the MDS 3.0 Provider User's Guide found on read more...
American Hospital Association Supports Observation Day Bill
By Patti Cullen, CAE
The American Hospital Association sent a letter to the Chief Operating Officer at CMS formally supporting the position(s) of your Association and AHCA/NCAL on the increased use of hospital observation days read more...
New HCPCS Code Set Released
By Doug Beardsley
CMS has announced the scheduled release of modifications to the Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) code set. These changes have been posted to the HCPCS website at read more...
Health Care Reform
CMS Releasing Second Solicitation for the National Background Check Program
By Patti Cullen, CAE
A few weeks ago CMS released an advance notice indicating that it will release a second grant solicitation soon for a multi-year National Background Check Program. Minnesota is still unlikely to apply read more...
Elder Justice Act Update
By Patti Cullen, CAE
At the AHCA/NCAL convention, many states offered input on what actions they were instructing their providers to do in order to be in compliance with a law that has no implementing regulation or funding read more...
Housing, Home and Community-Based Services
CMS Issues Final Rule to Update Home Health Prospective Payment System for Calendar Year 2011
By Phil Manz
CMS has issued a final rule to update the Home Health Prospective Payment System rates for Calendar Year 2011. Home health agency payments are estimated to decrease by approximately read more...
Home Care Survey Updates
By Doug Beardsley
MDH recently posted a whole new series of Class F and Class A survey forms on their website. On November 3, 2010, MDH modified and corrected the forms, with some changes based on suggestions read more...
DHS Releases Version 5.1.3 of Elderly Waiver Customized Living Tools
By Phil Manz
We advocated with DHS about the private pay rate box and the following changes were clarified in the change history: The prompt for the Private Pay rate box was modified and context help was added to clarify read more...
MDH Updates HWS and UCIG Documents
By Doug Beardsley
On Friday, October 29, 2010 the Minnesota Department of Health updated Bulletin 10-07 for Registered Housing with Services entities. Highlights include: MDH will begin to enforce legislative changes that read more...
EPA To Announce New ENERGY STAR® Program For Senior Care Communities
By Doug Beardsley
Less than a week is left to register for a webinar at which EPA officials will reveal the results of the 2009 Senior Care Energy Survey and launch an ENERGY STAR benchmarking program for senior care read more...
Education
Mark Your Calendars—Two Webinars in December
By Cheryl Smith
Two webinars are scheduled for December. On December 7, we will have one on Federal Health Reform Issues for Employers. It will cover the small employer health care tax credit, new W-2 reporting read more...
Association Activities
We Need You to Vote One More Time This Year!
By Nancy McCoy
This year we have a contested race for the six open Director at Large seats on the Care Providers of Minnesota Board of Directors. Please review the materials sent out in mid-October and plan to attend the read more...
Grant Information
DHS ElderCare Development Partnership Grant RFP
By Toby Pearson
The purpose of the grants is to provide funding for technical assistance to local providers so they can develop or expand affordable home and community-based services. Partnerships receiving these grants read more...
Member Resources
The 2010 Minnesota Nursing Facility Compensation Report
By Todd Bergstrom
This state-of-the-art compensation and benefits report contains salary information on 70 nursing facility staff positions. Each staff position’s salary data is broken down by facility size, geographic location read more...
Education & Events Calendar
|
2010 | |
|
Nov. 15 - 17 |
Care Providers of Minnesota 2010 Convention & Expo |
|
Dec. 7 |
Federal Health Reform Issues for Employers Webinar |
|
Dec. 9 |
Money Saving Ideas in Dietary Webinar |
|
2011 | |
|
Jan. 11 |
Region 2 (Northeast) Meeting |
|
Jan. 12 |
Region 1 (Northwest) Meeting |
|
Jan. 13 |
Region 3 (West-Central) Meeting |
|
Jan. 14 |
Region 4 (East-Central) Meeting |
|
Jan. 18 |
Region 6 (Metro) Meeting |
|
Jan. 19 |
Region 8 (South-Central) Meeting |
|
Jan. 20 |
Region 5 (South-West) Meeting |
|
Jan. 21 |
Region 7 (South-East) Meeting |
Would your health care organization benefit from interactive e-communications like this one?
Experience this CPM-sponsored service with a 30-day free trial.
Sign up today or call 877-488-2666 for more information.
|
Care Providers of Minnesota 7851 Metro Parkway • Suite 200 • Bloomington, MN 55425 Phone: 952.854.2844 • Fax: 952.854.6214 • MN Toll-Free: 800.462.0024 • www.careproviders.org |