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April 2021 Real Estate Newsletter
Posted On: April 27, 2021Author: Christopher LouisContinue Reading >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)
Posted On: March 30, 2021Evaluation and Management Office/Clinic Visit Documentation Detour: A Bumpy Road Ahead (Medicare and Medicaid)Continue Reading >Evaluation and Management Office/Clinic Visit Documentation Detour: A Bumpy Road Ahead (Medicare and Medicaid)
Posted On: March 30, 2021Author: Kelly LoyaContinue Reading >Autumn Hull and Kelly Loya published an article for the MiMGMA Spring 2021 Newsletter.
March 2021 Real Estate Newsletter
Posted On: March 10, 2021Author: Christopher LouisContinue Reading >Healthcare Real Estate Transactions and New Construction
53-Acre Life Sciences District in Houston Scheduled to Break Ground. Hines and 2M Real Estate are scheduled to break ground and begin construction on a five-story, 270,000 square foot advanced laboratory and life sciences building in the Texas Medical Center of Houston. The first phase of Levit green, a life sciences mixed-use project, includes a 25,000 square foot incubator lab and office space for entrepreneurs and startups, as well as several lakes, a boardwalk, fitness center, outdoor garden, 7,000 square foot conference center, and 3,500 square feet of restaurant space.
Remedy Medical Properties Completes Development ...
True Telehealth vs. Telephone Services
Posted On: March 8, 2021True Telehealth vs. Telephone ServicesContinue Reading >Social Determinants of Health (SDOH)
Posted On: March 3, 2021Social Determinants of Health (SDOH)Continue Reading >Managing Corporate Compliance in “Hybrid” Healthcare Organizations
Posted On: February 25, 2021Managing Corporate Compliance in “Hybrid” Healthcare OrganizationsContinue Reading >Managing Corporate Compliance in ‘Hybrid’ Healthcare Organizations
Posted On: February 25, 2021Continue Reading >Establishing an effective corporate compliance program, then managing and maintaining the program, is a complex and often difficult proposition for the traditional health care provider or health system. When the health system is part of a “hybrid” organization, those tasks amplify in complexity to connect traditional care delivery to a completely parallel concept business workflow. While business and health care compliance have underlying principal similarities to ‘always do the right thing’ regardless of the service being delivered, compliance needs for the health care delivery business component can be vastly different from the needs of the business entity. In some cases, ...
Six Things Every Rural Hospital CEO Must Do: Part Six
Posted On: February 16, 2021Continue Reading >Rural hospitals are closing at a record pace, and many of the reasons why could have been avoided.
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Last week, in Part Five of this six-part series on “we examined Topic #5, Telepharmacy. This week, in Part Six, we examine Board Education, and how being accountable for care in a community requires the ability to make informed decisions.
Part Six: Board Education
I once had the opportunity to hear a legendary, now since-retired hospital CEO-turned-university professor give a presentation to a group of Critical Access Hospital boards with whom I was working. Once each ...
Evaluation and Management Office/Clinic Visit Documentation Detour: A Bumpy Road Ahead (Medicare and Medicaid)
Posted On: February 9, 2021Continue Reading >Change is frequently difficult; however, without it, progress is stifled. As part of the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule, in 2019 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) announced significant revisions are coming for reporting physician time and effort as it pertains to office / outpatient Evaluation and Management (“E/M”) visit services. These changes are tied to the 2018 ‘Patients over Paperwork’ initiative and they bring the biggest shift in documentation and reporting visit services since the early 1990s. Below we will discuss these changes and how to manage the necessary adjustments.
The COVID-19 public health emergency (“PHE”) took ...