PBJ Has Moved to iQIES: What Skilled Nursing Facilities Need to Know
HR PayrollHealthcare dashboards give skilled nursing HR and payroll leaders real-time visibility into staffing, payroll, and compliance, all on one screen.
Healthcare Dashboards for Smarter Workforce Management
HR PayrollHealthcare dashboards give skilled nursing HR and payroll leaders real-time visibility into staffing, payroll, and compliance, all on one screen.
5 PBJ Reporting Mistakes Hiding in Your Data and Costing You Stars
HR PayrollIf your skilled nursing facility is doing everything right on the floor but still struggling to hold onto four or five stars, the culprit might not be care quality. It might be buried in your Payroll Based Journal (PBJ) data. ...
Your Scheduling Decisions May Be Tanking Your CMS Five-Star Rating: Here’s How
HR PayrollThis scenario happens more often than we realize: your facility got dinged on your CMS Five-Star rating and your Total Nursing Hours score dropped, even though you know your staffing levels haven’t changed. You check your PBJ reports, and everything looks accurate. Even your...
HPPD Requirements After the Moratorium: What SNF Leaders Need to Know in 2026
HR PayrollOver the course of 18 months, SNF leaders watched the federal 3.48 HPPD requirement go from finalized rule (May 2024), to postponed until 2034 (July 2025), to fully repealed (December 2025). If you’re an HR Director or Finance Officer at...
Is Your Payroll Leaking Money? Find the Gaps Other Home Care Leaders Miss
Home Health PayrollYou run payroll every two weeks. The checks go out on time. The math adds up. Your team thinks everything’s fine. But here’s what many home care agencies miss: accurate payroll can still bleed money. Maybe it’s overtime you didn’t...
Medicare’s 2025 Cost Reporting Changes: Why Nursing Homes Must Act Before Year-End
HR PayrollIf your nursing home runs on a calendar-year fiscal cycle, the clock is officially ticking. CMS rolled out major updates to the Medicare cost report. This is the biggest shift since PDPM, and what you need to do depends on...
Empeon Helps Limestone Fiscal Services Streamline Payroll and Workforce Management
HR PayrollWhen a healthcare operator needed to transition their entire payroll system in just two weeks — a timeline that can take over a month — Israel Bernstein, Vice President of Payroll Solutions at Limestone Fiscal Services, wasn’t sure it could...
6 Healthcare HR Strategies to Get Ahead of the Chaos
HR PayrollBetween last-minute call-outs, compliance alerts, and staffing crises, healthcare HR can feel like playing defense 24/7. But what if your workforce management strategy could actually get ahead of the chaos instead of constantly reacting to it? If you’re managing HR...
