Nursing home groups decry mandate push by CMS for staff to get COVID-19 vaccine
Fierce Healthcare
AUGUST 19, 2021
Nursing home groups decry mandate push by CMS for staff to get COVID-19 vaccine. Thu, 08/19/2021 - 16:27.
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Our Nursing Home Industry – A National Scandal
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 3, 2022
Many nursing homes lack the resources required to provide residents with the care they need and deserve, which results in low wages, insufficient staffing levels, high workloads and low morale. The COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated these challenges. Our nursing facility industry is about to crumble.
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Medicare Patients Win the Right to Appeal Gap in Nursing Home Coverage
Kaiser Health News
JANUARY 28, 2022
A three-judge federal appeals court panel in Connecticut has likely ended an 11-year fight against a frustrating and confusing rule that left hundreds of thousands of Medicare beneficiaries without coverage for nursing home care, and no way to challenge a denial. The trial took place in 2019. .”
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New York State Clamps Down on Nursing Home Revenue
NY Health Law
APRIL 28, 2021
In recent months, there has been a lot of attention on decisions made during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York State in regard to nursing homes. Nursing home operators themselves have faced suspicion in regard to such readmissions.
OIG Shines a Spotlight on Nursing Homes, Opioid Misuse, and Health Equity in the FY2022 Semiannual Report
Healthcare Law Blog
DECEMBER 7, 2022
In addition, the Semiannual Report included a summary chart of OIG reports issued, expected recoveries, and criminal and civil actions, which is copied below in comparison to the same numbers from the parallel period in 2021: [2]. million $1.19 billion Questioned Costs $1.17 billion $2.17 billion Potential Savings $1.24 billion $279.09
Long Term Care Update: As Winter Arrives, CMS Renews its Emphasis on COVID-19 Vaccinations, Bivalent Boosters and Timely Therapeutic Treatments
Healthcare Law Blog
DECEMBER 19, 2022
Addressing Declines in COVID-19 Vaccination Rates and COVID-19 Treatment. A pre-Thanksgiving analysis of this data revealed that just 45% of SNF residents and 23% of SNF staff were up-to-date with COVID-19 vaccines and boosters. [i]. Education for Staff Regarding Up-To-Date Vaccinations and Boosters.
The Supreme Court Blocks a COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for 84-Million Workers, but Upholds a COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for Healthcare Workers
Health Law Attorney
JANUARY 13, 2022
In June 2021, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“ OSHA ”) issued an Emergency Temporary Standard (“ ETS ”) that would require, amongst other things, employers with 100 or more employees to adopt a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy. An overview of the OSHA Vaccine Policy requirements can be accessed here.
Jury Returns Verdict for EEOC in Disability Case against Tennessee Nursing Home
Med-Net Compliance
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
After a three-and-a-half-day trial, a jury returned a verdict for the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on behalf of a former employee of a Tennessee nursing home who had been fired after requesting intermittent leave to address her anxiety. 8, 2021, the Sixth Circuit reversed the trial court’s dismissal of the case.
Nursing Home Update: CMS Unwinds Vaccine Mandate and More Regulations as Public Health Emergency End Nears
Hall Render
MAY 2, 2023
For this alert, “nursing homes” refers to skilled nursing facilities (often known as “SNFs”). COVID Regulations Impacted CMS issued several interim final rules during the PHE. COVID Testing Requirements. In 2020, CMS revised the nursing home infection control regulations at 42 CFR § 483.80
Here are the major issues facing healthcare in 2021, according to PwC
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
DECEMBER 16, 2020
This is according to a new annual report from research and consulting giant PwC entitled “Top health industry issues of 2021: Will a shocked system emerge stronger?” Healthcare right-sizes after the telemedicine explosion. " Payers may wrestle with how to reimburse and, in some cases, provide virtual care.
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Florida Governor Signs Sweeping COVID-19 Liability Protections Into Law
The Health Law Firm
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On March 29, 2021, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill that protects businesses, governments, and healthcare providers in Florida from COVID-19 lawsuits if they make a reasonable effort to follow guidelines to prevent the spread of coronavirus (whatever that means).
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Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic: Planning for Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management in Hospitals
Health Care Law Brief
OCTOBER 27, 2021
Although the COVID-19 pandemic is still active worldwide, health care industry leaders and regulators have already begun to think about how to implement post-pandemic changes to health care delivery based on lessons learned during the global emergency of the past year and a half. All hospitals everywhere were strapped for resources.
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ICAR Tool Updated
Healthcare Compliance Blog
JANUARY 11, 2022
The January 7, 2022, update does not include changes to isolation and quarantine guidance which was posted in December 2021. The January 7, 2022, update does not include changes to isolation and quarantine guidance which was posted in December 2021.
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Highlights from the HHS-OIG 2023 Spring Semiannual Report
Provider Trust
AUGUST 9, 2023
This post will delve into the key highlights, focus areas, and accomplishments presented in the semiannual report, shedding light on the OIG’s crucial role in safeguarding the integrity of federal healthcare programs and addressing emerging challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sage Secures $15M to Improve Quality of Care for Older Adults and Combat Caregiver Burnout
Healthcare IT Today
NOVEMBER 17, 2023
According to a 2021 survey released by the American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL), nearly every nursing home (99 percent) and assisted living facility (96 percent) in the U.S. is facing a staffing shortage. is facing a staffing shortage.
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Skilled Nursing Update: CMS Adds New F Tag and Survey Guidance on COVID-19 Vaccine Requirement Regulations – REVISED
Hall Render
JANUARY 6, 2022
Nursing homes face possible citations, civil monetary penalties, denial of payments and—as a final measure—termination of participation from the Medicare and Medicaid programs by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) as they embark on complying with the new CMS COVID-19 vaccine requirements for their staff.
Health Care Real Estate Briefing – January 24, 2022
Hall Render
JANUARY 24, 2022
The American Hospital Association is asking Congress to add $25B to the provider relief fund to help hospitals respond to recent COVID-19 surges per Becker’s Healthcare. Kaufman Hall released its 2021 M&A Year in Review. Cain Brothers released its 2021 M&A Year in Review.
Medicare & Medicaid Facilities Are Put On Notice: Employees Must Be Vaccinated
Health Law RX
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
Medicare and Medicaid certified facilities will be required to ensure that their employees are vaccinated for COVID-19, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced on September 9, 2021. These mandates are part of President Biden’s new six-prong COVID-19 Action Plan (the “Plan”) that he announced last week.
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Skilled Nursing Update: CMS Enhances Skilled Nursing Visitation Guidance – Visitor Testing, Air Quality Improvements and CMP Funds Available
Hall Render
FEBRUARY 4, 2022
Recommendations to Reduce the Spread of COVID. CMS emphasized that the facility must permit visitation regardless of the visitor’s vaccination status if the visitor does not report COVID-19 symptoms or meet the criteria for quarantine. CMP Funds Available for Environmental Changes to Reduce Transmission of COVID-19.
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40 Health Provider News – June 10, 2022
Hall Render
JUNE 10, 2022
COVID-19 rising in Alabama, experts believe cases are higher than reported. Alaska’s Covid-19 emergency order to end July 1. Alaska’s COVID-19 data shows 25% rise in cases reported to state since last week. Report: Mesa nursing home fined $500 after negligence leads to resident’s death.
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Consent and COVID Testing of Employees
AIHC
OCTOBER 11, 2021
Written By: Compliance Blogger This article addresses COVID testing and consent considerations for: healthcare organizations, nursing homes and business associates or non-healthcare workplaces. SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) continues to be a health risk to be mitigated by health care institutions and at the workplace.
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Health Provider News – May 20, 2022
Hall Render
MAY 20, 2022
COVID-19 public health emergency set to be extended. Covid-19 remains a public health emergency in US, administration says. HHS Announces $15M in Funding For Behavioral Healthcare In Nursing Homes. State Actions to Address Nursing Home Staffing During COVID-19. CALIFORNIA.
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Hackensack Meridian Health shows the benefits of telepsychiatry
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 29, 2022
In the fourth quarter of 2021, there were 4,024 in-person visits and 6,726 telehealth visits, accounting for 62.57% of visits. "That program was rolled out at Hackensack Meridian Health nursing homes and rehabilitation centers and has been tremendously helpful, particularly throughout COVID," he continued.
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$900 Million Increase in Medicare Part A Payments One of Many Medicare Changes for SNFs in FY 2023
C&M Health Law
AUGUST 10, 2022
On July 29, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule that updates Medicare payment policies and rates for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and enacts changes to the SNF Quality Reporting Program and the SNF Value-Based Purchasing Program beginning in FY 2023. SNF Payment Rates and PDPM Adjustments.
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Drug Diversion – Can AI Monitoring Solve This Growing Issue?
Healthcare IT Today
JANUARY 19, 2023
Healthcare workers were already overworked and struggling to reduce diversion when the COVID-19 pandemic first hit almost three years ago. Drug overdoses continued to climb in 2021, resulting in over 107,000 deaths. But outside hospital walls, demand for prescription drugs is growing too.
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Provider Relief Fund Reporting Changes from the HHS: What You Need to Know
MedTrainer
APRIL 5, 2021
COVID-19 has changed the healthcare landscape in many ways, but few people think they should fit out doctor offices with regulation software because of the pandemic. As part of the COVID relief bills passed in 2020, Congress created the Provider Relief Fund (PRF) to help mitigate the fallout from the pandemic.
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40 Health Provider News – May 13, 2022
Hall Render
MAY 13, 2022
FDA limits J&J COVID-19 vaccine due to rare blood clot risk. Nurses make exit plans after RaDonda Vaught’s conviction. Travel nurses raced to help during Covid. US faces deficit of 450,000 nurses by 2025. Alabama hospital rationing medical supplies due to COVID disruptions in China.
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Weekly Health Care Real Estate Briefing: DOL Releases New Consumer Price Index Data | Health Care Credit Ratings Affected by Interest Rates and Labor Costs
Hall Render
DECEMBER 16, 2022
nurses by 2026; 2) U.S. health care spending will be $370 billion higher by 2027 as a result of inflation; 3) Nursing home spending has increased 10% year over year; and 4) Health care M&A hit a record high in terms of volume in Q2 of 2022. years in 2021, down from 78.8 Nuveen released its 2023 Real Estate Outlook.
SQA Regulatory Surveillance Summary | Monthly Update 2022 – June
SQA
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
ANVISA published the RDC 702/2022, which repeals some requirements that were instituted to speed market approval of devices needed to treat patients during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Agency recently published the first list of critical medicines for the management of the COVID-19 pandemic. 27 May 2022.
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Health Provider News – February 18, 2022
Hall Render
FEBRUARY 18, 2022
CMS may now enforce its COVID-19 vaccination policy for healthcare workers in all 50 states. HHS seeks $30B to combat COVID-19. As Alabama COVID numbers fall, ICUs across the state remained slammed. Doctors: Pediatric COVID cases appear to be trending down. Million in Covid Relief.
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Changing Hands, Not Washing Them: CMS’ First Report on Nursing Home M&A Data
C&M Health Law
MAY 11, 2022
Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released data —for the first time—reporting on mergers, acquisitions, consolidations, and changes of ownership of Medicare enrolled hospitals and nursing homes over the past six years.
Hall Render’s Health Provider News – February 25, 2022
Hall Render
FEBRUARY 25, 2022
40% of Nursing Home Residents Haven’t Received COVID-19 Boosters, Analysis Finds. Biden extends COVID-19 national emergency. No COVID-19 boosters for 70% of nursing home staffs, AARP says. Contract Nurse Agencies Are Making Big Money in the Age of COVID-19.
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The Pandemic Prison
Bill of Health
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
The scale of COVID-19 in jails, prisons, and detention centers was expected. Ultimately, officials used vaccine access to justify “learning to live with COVID” as a society, but the restrictive emergency governance of carceral facilities has become a new normal. Yet these were perhaps the most preventable infections.
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Health Provider News – April 29, 2022
Hall Render
APRIL 29, 2022
About 20K nursing home staff now have vaccine medical exemptions. Federal judge temporarily blocks Biden administration from ending Title 42 Covid border restrictions for migrants. Hospitals to OSHA: Do not finalize COVID-19 standard for healthcare workers. Arkansas see new covid case jump, but active cases fall.
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40 Key Areas of Focus for Skilled Nursing Facilities as the Public Health Emergency Ends
Hall Render
MARCH 28, 2023
On January 30, 2023, the Biden Administration announced the COVID public health emergency (“PHE”) will expire and end on May 11, 2023. CMS ended several of the SNF blanket waivers in 2021 and 2022. CMS has allowed states and nursing homes to suspend these assessments for new residents for thirty days.
Health Provider News – March 25, 2022
Hall Render
MARCH 25, 2022
Hospital stays for nursing home residents down nearly 9%, federal data shows. OSHA accepting new comments on healthcare worker COVID-19 protection rule. OSHA will hold hearing on permanent COVID-19 standard for healthcare workers. What’s holding up hospital at home? What’s next?
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Health Provider News – April 22, 2022
Hall Render
APRIL 22, 2022
GAO investigating private equity ownership of nursing homes. This nursing home chain reported the highest COVID death rate. Bill banning COVID-19 vaccine mandates heads to Ducey’s desk. California to delay COVID-19 vaccine mandate for students. 3 hacker gangs targeting hospitals.
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Health Provider News – August 19, 2022
Hall Render
AUGUST 19, 2022
CDC ends social distancing, COVID-19 quarantines. CDC, amid criticism for COVID-19 response, plans reorganization as public health threats grow. Nursing homes and long-term care facilities face increased turnover, look to new solution to attract workers. Deadline to Close Nursing Home Extended by 2 Months.
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40 Health Provider News – September 23, 2022
Hall Render
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
House report attacks, nursing homes fight back over allegations of deficient staffing, care and safe practices as pandemic hit. Alabama’s COVID positivity rate, hospitalizations drop considerably. Tracking COVID-19 in Alaska: State reports significant decrease in cases, hospitalizations. CALIFORNIA.
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Hall Render
JUNE 21, 2024
Medicare fraud scheme OSF HealthCare, Illinois State Collaborate on SDOH Research Second lawsuit filed in deadly fall at UChicago Hospital construction site State fines four nursing homes in west central Illinois Waukegan hospital facing lawsuit over handling of asbestos in demolition project Who’s pursuing ASCs in 2024?
Health Provider News – November 4, 2022
Hall Render
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
CMS gives nursing homes a longer leash on staff COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Colorado ends daily reporting of COVID-19 numbers. Nurse accused of sexual assault while working at Colorado hospital. Nuvance Health launches cognitive care-at-home program. CMS bumps ASC payments to 3.8
Health Provider News
Hall Render
MARCH 31, 2023
in 2022, survey finds Senate votes to end COVID-19 national emergency Why are 600+ rural hospitals at risk of closing? in 2022, survey finds Senate votes to end COVID-19 national emergency Why are 600+ rural hospitals at risk of closing? buys industrial property in Rancho Cordova for $5.12
Health Provider News – September 16, 2022
Hall Render
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
These 10 states still have COVID emergency orders in place. HHS expected to renew COVID-19 PHE for 11th time. Alabama’s COVID-19 positivity rate, hospitalization rate continues its decline. Covid cases remain low in Alaska. Arizona weekly COVID-19 update adds 6,119 cases, 82 deaths.
Health Provider News – January 7, 2022
Hall Render
JANUARY 7, 2022
CDC gives nursing home workers a big break – if they’re boosted. CDC shortens COVID isolation rules for health workers. CMS Issues Additional Vaccine Mandate Guidance for Nursing Homes. COVID-19 hospitalizations up in 34 states. Inflation jump took a bite out of 2021 physician compensation.
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