Well, it is September: Back to school for some, and back to work for others. Election season is fully upon us, and we cannot help but speculate as to who will be our next president and how his healthcare policies will impact the dialysis world. Autumn is also a great time to re-visit our annual goals and plan out how we will set operational priorities from now until Jan. 1, 2009.
Time marches on—and this month, we will give you some tools to assess your potential costs or even savings associated with implementing the new CfCs in this, the third part of our series exploring the financial impact of the April 15 complete revision of the Conditions of Coverage for End-Stage Renal Disease Facilities (CfCs).
If you missed last month’s RBT article: “CfCs: WHAT do I need to do, and WHEN do I need to do it,” let me know via email, and I will have a copy sent along.
Budgeting for Implementation
Let’s face it, as we consider any regulatory change, we are somewhat skeptical that our lives, or those of our patients, will be in any way positively impacted. We find it hard to believe that lawmakers and bureaucrats could actually understand, care about or improve the complex, real world we operate in. In the back our mind is a voice reminding us that those politicians and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) experts who make the rules, often do not have to live with the day-to-day clinical reality of patient care and regulatory compliance.
