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Interpreting Your PEPPER Report Is Much Easier Than You Realize

Published on Tue Dec 31, 2013

Use these pointers to clear up confusion. Understanding your skilled nursing facility’s (SNF’s) Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER) report is much easier if you understand the key terms — percent and percentile. “There are two terms at the heart of PEPPER: Percents and Percentiles,” said Kimberly Hrehor, MHA, RHIA, CHC, project director at Austin, Texas-based TMF Health [...]
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