Healthcare Real Estate Transactions and New Construction 

Medical Properties Trust To Buy 18 Springstone Hospital Facilities for $760 Million

Medical Properties Trust has agreed to acquire 18 Springstone inpatient behavioral health hospitals in a $760 million sale-leaseback deal. The transaction also involves acquiring an interest in Springstone’s operations for $190 million. The seller of the properties is San Francisco-based private equity firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe. Louisville, Kentucky-based Springstone provides behavioral health services in its purpose-built, inpatient facilities in nine states, with five in Texas, four in Ohio, two in Arizona and Indiana, and ...

Put Your Best Foot Forward When Determining Whether Foot Care is Covered

Catheterization Coding Basics - Untangling Interventional Radiology Rules

 

In previous years, discussion around value-based reimbursement programs typically included questions like “Will they continue to be proposed?” and “Will they be adopted and implemented?”. These questions are answered by reviewing the 2022 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed rules. Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) programs are being expanded, and in the case of Home Healthcare (HH), accelerated.

In the recent Federal Registry, CMS is proposing an early end to the current HH VBP (limited to ...

By Allison Carty, JD, MBA

In collaboration with AHLA’s Women’s Council, we take a look at how to engage talented women leaders within the healthcare valuation industry.

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Background

The year 2020 was one characterized as an upheaval across the globe given the impact of Covid-19.  The effect of the pandemic on the healthcare industry was particularly notable.  Part of the reason is of course the industry’s close proximity to the virus; however, the closures of many office-based businesses (including medical operations) and cancellations on elective procedures during the apex of the crisis resulted in a further impact amongst the healthcare world.  While states imposed various mandates across the country, patient reticence also played a role in the decline in healthcare volumes.  With ...

Critical Care/Intensive Care Coding from Neonates to Adults

Healthcare Real Estate Transactions and New Construction 

Tampa General Hospital and Kindred Healthcare Break Ground on Freestanding Inpatient Rehabilitation Hospital. Anchor Health Properties has begun construction on a new 59-bed, 87,649 square foot inpatient rehabilitation hospital which will offer expanding services to the regional Tampa Bay, FL community. The facility will have all private rooms and offer state-of-the-art technology. Transitional living apartments designed to simulate a residential apartment will enable patients to heal in a personalized and private environment as they prepare to return to independent living. Patients will also experience specially planned rooms to for dialysis treatments and programs ...

Evaluation and Management Office/Clinic Visit Documentation Detour: A Bumpy Road Ahead (Medicare and Medicaid)