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April 21, 2010
UPDATE! Acuity adjustment delayed until July 1, 2010. Effective February 1 to June 30 all Rhode Island nursing homes will be subject to a "Two-Tier" Medicaid rate reduction effective 2/1/10 that will fund a portion of the State of Rhode Island's FY10 budget shortfall...read more March 11, 2010 DHS has mailed out the notice on the 5% rate reduction. In the notice dated March 5, 2010, DHS is asking for confirmation on the days of service for the period April 15 to April 30, 2009...read more January 15, 2010 Effective for the 2009 Medicare cost reports that will be filed in 2010, the requirements for qualifying for, and the method of obtaining approva for, filing a low-utilization cost report have changed. There is no longer a "days provided" limit of 1,500 Medicare days in a calendar year as there was in the past...read more December 10, 2009 UPDATE! Nursing Facility 5% Rate Reduction. At a recent meeting, Ralph Racca stated that the 5% rate reduction is forth coming. EDS is having technical issues with obtaining the necessary data as of April 15...read more December 8, 2009 On December 4th, DHS released its proposed nursing facility acuity adjusted rate and the September 30 resident case mix index. Each calculation was mailed to the facility with a diskette containing a password protected file. If you did not receive this important mail, please contact Ralph Racca at 462-1879...read more December 1, 2009 DHS says that the initial Medicaid acuity rate adjustment will use the September 30, 2009 census data and that every nursing facility will receive a detailed analysis of their new acuity based Medicaid rate calculation by December 4th - this Friday...read more November 24, 2009 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has provided information in advance of their December 1, 2009 SNF Advisory Group Conference Call relative to the Provider Statistical & Reimbursement Report (PS&R)...read more Archived Matters of Interest
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