Category: Healthcare Regulations

March 15, 2012

Comparing Therapy Staffing Models in SNFs

Jennifer Flanagan, SLP
SNF Operations Manager

I’ve had numerous discussions over the years, with not only administrators but also family and friends, explaining what I do and what RehabVisions does as a company. It always leads to a discussion about why a skilled nursing facility would utilize a contract services company for their therapy. When this article crossed my desk, I …

August 26, 2011

What keeps a CFO awake at night?

Darrell Metcalf
Senior Vice President and CFO

After you get past – who cares?, it is sometimes insightful to understand what worries a CFO. Believe it or not, we CFOs are not as optimistic, upbeat and dynamic as our daily persona suggests. Sometimes, when we are alone, we are skeptical, conservative and downright cynical. Those attributes happen to come in quite handy …

June 15, 2011

ACOs – We already have them – it’s called your local Critical Access Hospital

Darrell Metcalf
Senior Vice President and CFO

It’s interesting to see the trade periodicals fill with articles about Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), how to structure them, how to ensure they don’t run afoul of anti-trust laws, how to allocate savings and on and on ad nauseum. Having staked our niche largely in rural and tertiary markets, we get to see effective ACOs …

March 28, 2011

Do clinical doctorates make sense in light of lower reimbursements?

Darrell Metcalf
Senior Vice President and CFO

Healthcare cost, Healthcare cost, Healthcare cost…the rhetoric seems almost endless regarding what benefits should be cut, what payments are unnecessary and how much fraud is occurring. I have been pondering the healthcare cost question for some time and have expressed my views to a few colleagues. It seems to me that the government wants to …