Most skilled nursing providers managed last month’s transition to the new iQies system for MDS data submission pretty well, but providers should view the changes as just the first step in an ongoing ...

In 2016, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services started focused on-site surveys to address the issue of erroneous coding of schizophrenia in nursing homes. More recently, the agency began ...

A recently released report from a federal watchdog agency drew attention to nursing homes’ underreporting of resident falls ...

The frailty syndrome is an emerging concept for providers who care for individuals with significant comorbidities, advanced age, or a decline in functional or cognitive status; the more typical ...