This Week

...has been crazy. The State Department of Health has been at my building on their annual inspection. While I always know that what we do in my therapy department is legal and ethical and the best thing for our patients, I ALWAYS fear that one of us may have missed something and that I will get in trouble and lose my license. When you work under the guidelines of the Federal Govt., which I do in billing for Medicare, there is no room for error - not knowing about something is not reason enough to excuse an error. Scary. Have you ever tried reading any Medicare guidlines? How anyone knows what they are doing is beyond me.

Luckily, the inspection went OK and therapy received a few compliments! Whew! I can relax for another 9-15 months!

Back to normalcy...

BTW, did you know that the nursing home industry is THE most regulated industry in the US? It is even more regulated than the nuclear industry. Unbelievable.