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The Advantages Of The New PBJ Requirements

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By Christine Barnes


The payroll based journal or PBJ is the mandate result of new proprietors where they are brought by a lot of requirements. The requirements include a healthcare insurance. But the PBJ affects the nursing houses and as well as the care facilities that include skilled nursing facilities.

The payroll based journal have several goals to achieve. First is to allow Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services to collect more frequent and regular information from the nursing homes. Second is to ensure data accuracy. Third is to have a standardized collection of information. And fourth is the inspection of the quality of care provided by the nursing homes. PBJ requirements is often called as the peanut butter and jelly requirement.

The ACA or Affordable Care Act requires the CMS to go ahead with the collection of data from all facilities which will include all the staffs in agencies. And to comply the requirement of ACA, the CMS developed the PBJ. All of nursing facilities were motivated to read and to review the manual of policies of the requirements.

The policies of PBJ in the manual is providing all necessary information and background for submission of the requirements. It includes the submission screens, submission deadlines, each definition of categories. All collected data are inputted in the PBJ system. The data are being entered in a quarterly basis within forty five days every after quarter.

The requirement that is proposed will surely be a great burden in most parts of a facility. Surely, software vendors will be diminishing the workload in the facilities. But they will still be requiring new scheduling, payroll system, and timekeeping. The contracted workers and the therapists who are non payroll staffs would not be affected by the new software systems because they will still continue on using the manual entry for the requirements. So therefore, submission will require double effort.

Since the implementation of this, it became very critical for the providers. If there will be some failures upon submission, it maybe errors on reports or inaccuracy of data, it will lead to penalties. These idea has been identified for delivering better quality care outcomes. Another advantage of this is that the consumers and the referral sources will understand more about the differences of staffing in the nursing homes.

The CMS understands that this is a big problem for the providers nowadays. And while providers are still adjusting to this, CMS stated that they will not impose any remedy on this. And aside from this, they will be providing feedbacks or warnings to the providers that will help them in facilitating with the compliance of the requirement.

Though this is affecting the process of staffing, the revenue goals, and operational costs, there is still one good thing about this. You can just manage and control the reporting process easily, thus, resulting to minimal costs. And also it ensures to meet the reporting requirement.

When the requirement is met, it will show that facilities provide a better and improved quality care. It also reduces risks in submitting delayed reports and paying for penalties. Though it may be time consuming, it will still let consumers identify an improved, better facility for other people.




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