Tuesday 20 September 2016

The Advantages Of The New PBJ Requirements

By Christine Barnes


A payroll based journal or commonly as PBJ is a result of the requirements being brought for the employers and which they mandated. One of the requirements is the healthcare insurance. But PBJ is affecting the nursing homes and the care facilities including 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 Affordable Care Act is requiring the CMS to start collecting any information in all nursing facilities including the staffs in the agencies. And to be able to comply this requirement given by the ACA, CMS has developed the PBJ. All nursing facilities are encouraged to read and review all the policies in the manual of the said 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.

This requirement being proposed surely has created burden in the part of many facilities. And surely, the vendors of the software will be decreasing the workload in such facilities. They will have to require new payroll system, scheduling, and timekeeping as well. Non payroll staffs such as the therapists and the contracted workers will not be affected by the software systems since they will still use the manual entry of requirements. Therefore, the submission of it may require duplicate effort.

Ever since this is implemented, it became critical for some providers. If there are failures during the submission, like report errors or data inaccuracy, this may lead to some penalties. The idea was being identified because it has delivered better quality care as its outcome. Another good advantage for this is the consumers and referral sources understand more on the differences between staffing in nursing homes.

Nowadays, this can be a very big problem to most providers, but the CMS understands them. While they are adjusting and adapting to this, CMS stated to refrain from imposing remedies on this. Aside from that, CMS will provide feedbacks and warnings to them to help them facilitate the requirement compliance.

Even if this has affected all the staffing, revenue goals, and the operational costs, there is still one main advantage of this. You can just easily control and manage the reporting processes, thus, minimizing all the costs involved. And it will ensure the meeting of reporting requirement.

Meeting the requirement will help show all facilities that are providing quality care. And also, it minimizes the risk of having delayed reports and as well as having penalties. And even though this is time consuming, the consumers can still identify a very good facility for their loved ones.




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