The Short-Term Acute Care PEPPER (ST PEPPER) is designed for short-term acute care hospitals and compares the individual hospital results to other short-term acute care hospitals in three comparison …

PEPPER is an electronic data report that contains a single hospital’s claims data statistics for Medicare-severity diagnosis related groups (DRGs) and discharges at risk for improper payment due to billing, …

All SNFs that have sufficient data to generate a report receive a PEPPER, which contains statistics for these target areas. The report shows how a SNF’s data compares to aggregate jurisdiction, state …

Pepper (Piper nigrum Linn.), and its key pungent constituent piperine (an alkaloid), has long been one of the world’s most popular spices. Interestingly, it is one of the only culinary spices (along with the …

Botany and Planting Bell pepper—Capsicum annuum, Solanaceae Habanero and Bird’s-eye pepper—Capsicum chinense

The PEPPER was first created for Short-Term Acute Care Hospitals back in 2002 by the TMF Health Quality Institute The 1st HH specific PEPPER’s were in 2015

Pepper plants grow best in warm, well-drained soils of moderate fertility. The plants are not particularly sensitive to soil acidity, but best results are obtained in the 6.0 to 6.8 pH range.