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Harmony Healthcare International provides the long term care industry the tools to obtain accurate reimbursement and ultimately provide better care to its residents. Through Seminars and consulting services, Harmony educates, trains and advises with a client centered approach. We also provide monthly onsite audits to ensure MDS accuracy, Medicare compliance and Case Management review.

The Harmony Healthcare newsletter provides the LTC industry with weekly insight regarding federal and state updates that are vital to reimbursement, compliance and clinical programming.

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Harmony Healthcare Newsletter Articles
Therapy Tips for Documenting Pain (6/2/2011)
AHRQ Pressure Ulcer Research (5/24/2011)
CMS SNF Proposed Rates FY2012 (5/17/2011)
COT OMRA (5/10/2011)
CMS Posts Proposed FY 2012 Update to SNF PPS (5/4/2011)
Congress Discusses the Therapy Cap (4/26/2011)
MDS 3.0 Coding of Respiratory Therapy (4/19/2011)
SNF Billing Q and A (4/12/2011)
Reduce Risk of Audit; Diagnosis Coding (4/5/2011)
OIG Report, SNF Medicare Part B (3/29/2011)
OIG Report, Medicare Part A (3/22/2011)
March 15 Part B therapy documentation solutions (3/15/2011)
March 8 QM (3/8/2011)
March 1 MDS Correction Procedures (3/2/2011)
SNF Therapy Legislative Updates (2/22/2011)
Pain Assessment and Coding for MDS 3.0 (2/8/2011)
What CMS says about EOT OMRA (2/1/2011)
1-25 Therapy and MDS 3.0 Coding (1/25/2011)
1-18 Section G: Eating (1/18/2011)
1-11 Administrators Need to Know MDS 3.0 (1/11/2011)
1-03 QIS Training (1/4/2011)
Dec 13: RUG-IV is here to stay (12/14/2010)
Dec 7: MDS 3.0 Staff Interviews (12/7/2010)
Nov 30 Congress is about to ACT (11/30/2010)
RUG-IV Comparison to Hybrid RUG-III (11/23/2010)
MDS 3.0 Intensive Topsfield (11/23/2010)
Billing Updates (11/16/2010)
11/9 CAAs (11/9/2010)
11/2 CAAs (11/2/2010)
October 26 RUG-IV vs. HR-III (10/26/2010)
October 19th Billing Considerations (10/19/2010)
Coding Isolation (10/12/2010)
CMS Changes for Option 2 (10/5/2010)
MDS 3.0 is Here! (9/28/2010)
MDS 3.0, Section M (9/14/2010)
Transition to MDS 3.0, Part 2 (9/7/2010)
Coding MDS 3.0 Section I: FActive Diagnosis (8/24/2010)
CMS RAI manual updates (8/18/2010)
MDS 3.0: Section N Medications (8/10/2010)
MDS 3.0: Falls (8/3/2010)
Is Your Team Ready for MDS 3.0? (7/28/2010)
Action To Implement RUGs IV (7/20/2010)
MDS 3.0: Coding Section O (7/13/2010)
MDS 3.0: Coding UTI (7/6/2010)
MDS 3.0 and Terminally Ill Patients (6/29/2010)
MDS 3.0 Section H (6/15/2010)
RUGs IV or Not? (5/25/2010)
MDS 3.0 CMS site (5/18/2010)
MDS 3.0 Section F (5/4/2010)
CMS Talks RUGs IV (4/27/2010)
Assessment schedules (4/20/2010)
Section K (4/6/2010)
Healthcare reform and RUGS IV (3/30/2010)
CAp Update and Section D: Mood II (3/23/2010)
Section D: Mood (3/16/2010)
Duplication of services (3/2/2010)
Rehab Goals (2/23/2010)
Medicare Documentation (2/16/2010)
MDS Accuracy (2/9/2010)
New RAI Manual Chapters (2/2/2010)
Investigating RUGs IV (1/26/2010)
MDS 3.0 RAI Manual Update (1/19/2010)
RAC Issues Under Review (1/12/2010)
Medicare Documentation in a SNF (1/5/2010)
Therapy caps 2010 (12/29/2009)
Happy Holidays (12/22/2009)
Section C; Coding Cognitive Patterns (12/15/2009)
MDS 3.0 Section M (12/8/2009)
MDS 3.0 (12/1/2009)
Wound Management (11/24/2009)
Medicare Madness (11/17/2009)
MDS 3.0 (11/10/2009)
Medicare Documentation (10/20/2009)
Restorative Nursing (10/13/2009)
QI/QMs (9/29/2009)
QI/QMs (9/15/2009)
Responding to ADR's (9/8/2009)
Medicare News: Concurrent Therapy (8/18/2009)
Rehab Screening process (7/21/2009)
Pain Part II (6/30/2009)
Pain (6/23/2009)
Basics of Documentation (11/4/2008)
Midnight Rule (10/28/2008)
Lower 18 Continued, Doc Examples (10/21/2008)
Lower 18 (10/14/2008)
Medicare Audits (10/8/2008)
Ezine (9/30/2008)
Maximum Functional Potential Reached Part II (9/23/2008)
Maximum Functional Potential Reached (9/16/2008)
Alternative Therapy Approaches (9/9/2008)
Rehab Aide Utilization Per RAI (9/2/2008)
30 Day Window (8/26/2008)
Skin Assessments: Part III (8/19/2008)
Skin Assessments: Part II (8/12/2008)
Skin Assessments (8/5/2008)
Rehab Goals that Withstand Audit (7/29/2008)
Mapping Therapy Minutes Part II (7/22/2008)
Mapping Therapy Minutes Part l (7/15/2008)
CMS Announces Therapy CAP Exceptions Expire (7/8/2008)
Q and A Restorative (7/2/2008)
CMS New 5 Star Quality Rating (6/26/2008)
Q and A Team Therapy (6/19/2008)
Part B Exceptions (6/11/2008)
Clarity, Consistency, Accuracy (6/3/2008)
Q and A Cognitive Goal Setting (5/28/2008)
CMS Therapy Transmittal Released (5/20/2008)
Q & A Cog Assessments (5/13/2008)

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