Jerri Lynn Ward

JUNE 18, 2024

For example, one paper found that nursing homes in Illinois were much more profitable than claimed but that 63 percent of those profits were hidden and directed to related parties of the owner. percent and compliance with the nurse aide HRPD requirement would rise from 15.3 percent to 75.6 percent to 36.1 percent in Illinois. [

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Verisys

JULY 25, 2024

June 2024 Bad Actor Roundup By Verisys Each month we will give a roundup of recent healthcare fraudsters and compliance busters. Million to Settle Allegations Related to Telehealth Services for Nursing Home Residents ( Full Story ) Chronic Disease Management Provider to Pay $14.9M

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Verisys

JULY 25, 2024

June 2024 Bad Actor Roundup By Verisys Each month we will give a roundup of recent healthcare fraudsters and compliance busters. Million to Settle Allegations Related to Telehealth Services for Nursing Home Residents ( Full Story ) Chronic Disease Management Provider to Pay $14.9M

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Compliancy Group

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Last November, the OIG published industry-specific compliance guidance for 2024 for several healthcare subsectors, including nursing homes and facilities. More specifically, the 2024 guidance for nursing facilities focuses on several areas.

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MedTrainer

JANUARY 10, 2024

It’s that time of the year to check your records for 2023 compliance deficiencies and set your organization up for success in 2024. Release of Industry-Specific Compliance Program Guidance (ICPG) is anticipated in 2024. It may seem a little early to do some spring cleaning, but not when it comes to compliance!

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Hanys

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Nursing home back-to-basics series: Site visit readiness Nov. 3 and 5 2024 Healthcare law review Dec. 4 Nursing home back-to-basics series: Site visit readiness Nov. 3 and 5 2024 Healthcare law review Dec. 18 HANYS' Sepsis Program: Applying the CDC Hospital Sepsis Core Elements Nov.

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Hanys

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Nursing home Quality Assurance Performance Improvement and root cause analysis process Oct. 31 Nursing home back-to-basics series: Site visit readiness Nov. 13 Fall 2024 HIM user group meeting Nov. 14 Nursing home Quality Assurance Performance Improvement and root cause analysis process Oct.

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Hanys

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

13 Fall 2024 HIM user group meeting Nov. 14 Nursing home back-to-basics series: Site visit readiness Nov. Standing membership call on state and federal issues Nov. 12 Age-Friendly Health Systems Action Community recruitment webinar Nov. 18 Post-acute and continuing care quarterly meeting Nov.

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Hanys

OCTOBER 4, 2024

This week the governor signed the following bills of interest into law: Nursing home ratings – Chapter 336 of the Laws of 2024 Health insurance enrollment for pregnant individuals – Chapter 420 of the Laws of 2024 Physical copies of patient information – Chapter 347 of the Laws of 2024 Breast cancer screening coverage – Chapter (..)

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Hall Render

MAY 2, 2023

For this alert, “nursing homes” refers to skilled nursing facilities (often known as “SNFs”). In 2020, CMS revised the nursing home infection control regulations at 42 CFR § 483.80 The CMS Memo confirms that this requirement will remain in effect until May 21, 2024 unless additional regulatory action is taken.

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Hanys

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Nursing home back-to-basics series: Site visit readiness Nov. 13 Fall 2024 HIM user group meeting Nov. 4 and 18 Healthcare Middle Manager Virtual Training Nov. 5-6 Government relations update series Nov. 8 Age-Friendly Health Systems Action Community recruitment webinar Nov.

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Modern Healthcare

JULY 3, 2023

Nursing homes, rehab providers and psychiatric hospitals urged the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to account for economic conditions in fiscal 2024 rates

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Compliancy Group

APRIL 17, 2024

Focus Areas for 2024 The OIG’s General Compliance Program Guidance (GCPG) establishes industry-specific compliance program guidance (ICPG) for 2024 that focuses on forms of fraud, waste, and abuse specific to certain types of suppliers, providers, and entities like nursing homes, clinical laboratories, and hospitals.

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 20, 2023

S&P Global Ratings published a sector view report indicating the agency expects a constrained operating environment in 2024 largely due to persistently high labor and operating costs. Medicaid funding changes are also accelerating the move from nursing homes to home and community-based services.

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Hanys

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

We're telling legislators to stabilize New York's hospitals and nursing homes and protect New Yorkers' access to care. Our new fact sheets explain why the final SFY 2024-2025 budget must: Close the Medicaid gap. Reject Medicaid cuts. Provide low- and no-cost relief.

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Provider Trust

JANUARY 25, 2024

Though HHS has made efforts to address the challenges outlined in this year’s report, there are still many opportunities for improvement in 2024. We’ve broken down the report’s primary themes and how they affect healthcare organizations moving forward in 2024.

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Hall Render

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Welltower has selected Integra Healthcare Properties, a newly-formed company with a 29-year-old CEO, to manage 147 nursing homes in 15 states. Integra will lease the nursing homes from Welltower and then sublet them to regional operators. million in affordable housing in Bel Aire, Kansas. million ASC in North Carolina.

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Hanys

JUNE 7, 2024

2465-C) Nursing home quality postings (A.2188/S.3498) 2124) Please see our summary chart for a complete list of bills of interest that have passed both houses during the 2024 legislative session. 2465-C) Nursing home quality postings (A.2188/S.3498) 3498) Influenza virus vaccination at general hospitals (A.9866/S.9550)

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Hanys

JUNE 14, 2024

The following bills of interest passed both houses recently: Nursing home closures (A.3703/S.2984) 8966-A) Hospital-home care-physician collaboration program (A.9204/S.9049) 7840) Please see our summary chart for a complete list of bills of interest that passed both houses during the 2024 legislative session.

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Twenty states and 19 nonprofit organizations filed a lawsuit against HHS and CMS over recent nursing home minimum staffing mandates. The plaintiffs allege the final rule “poses an existential threat” to the nursing home industry. The median operating margin reported by Kaufman Hall for August 2024 was 4.2%.

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Jane Sarashon

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Note that 8 in 10 consumers rate nurses excellent/good compared with 7 in 10 people ranking physicians this way, 6 in 10 for hospitals, 5 in 10 for telemedicine/virtual visits, and just under 5 in 10 for hospital emergency departments. In the “you always hurt the ones you love” mode, 2024 should be the year that U.S.

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 8, 2023

A recent report on medical office trends for 2024 indicated that, while interest rates may help stabilize the financing environment for the health care real estate sector, the labor environment may continue to be challenging. Some are predicting a rise in mental healthcare clinic deals in 2024.

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Nursing home REITs anticipate rising deal volume in the sector as occupancy rates improve and reliance on agency labor has decreased. As of Q3 2024 , senior living transactions totaled 700, up 25% from 2022, and spending reached $2.96B, up 243% year-over-year.

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 1, 2023

CommonSpirit Health has closed on a $5M impact investment to support an affordable housing community in San Francisco called Freedom West Homes. Becker’s published a summary of how health system executives plan to cut expenses in 2024. Common themes include: 1. Reduce real estate expenses through portfolio optimization, 2. for $198M.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 30, 2023

The deal only appears to involve the trade show – next slated for March 11-15, 2024 in Orlando – and makes no mention of smaller HIMSS events (in-person or online) or the Healthcare IT News or MobiHealthNews publications that HIMSS Media owns. News HIMSS is planning to sell its annual conference to Informa.

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Hall Render

AUGUST 4, 2023

CMS issued a final rule that will increase payments to SNFs by 4%, or $1.4B, starting in 2024. CMS described the increase as a “parity adjustment recalibration,” noting that it had previously overestimated overpayments to nursing homes, which resulted in an unintended reduction in reimbursement in 2023.

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Healthcare Law Blog

MARCH 6, 2024

On March 5, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (“the FTC”) hosted a public workshop titled “Private Capital, Public Impact: An FTC Workshop on Private Equity in Health Care”, which covered the impact of private equity investment on the health care system. 1] Health care market participants (i.e.

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MedTrainer

AUGUST 8, 2024

As of March 2024, over 67 million in the United States are Medicare beneficiaries. CMS and subject matter experts created the Hand in Hand in-service training for nurse aides to meet this requirement. Though Hand in Hand is targeted at nurse aides, it may be valuable to all nursing home caregivers, administrative staff, and surveyors.

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Jerri Lynn Ward

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The Texas Center for Nursing Workforce Studies is surveying to assess nurse staffing issues so that legislators can “make informed decisions regarding the nursing shortage in Texas.” ” You have until Friday, March 15, 2024, to give input. Go here to participate.

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AIHC

JUNE 3, 2024

People with degenerative diseases or cognitive disabilities, which include dementia, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s, or those living in institutional settings such as nursing homes, are often not included in surveys. An article was published on April 30, 2024 by CBS News entitled Criminal schemes targeting U.S.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JUNE 22, 2023

Under the Act, any such clause in a health care contract, written policy, written procedure or agreement entered into, renewed or amended on or after July 1, 2024 will be considered null and void. If such fees are collected after July 1, 2024, OHS will have enforcement discretion to charge civil penalties of up to $1,000 for each violation.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In 2024, I expect innovation to accelerate in a few key areas: AI empowerment: AI will be transformative for radiology, but we’re still years away from widespread use of AI-trained diagnostics algorithms or many other purely clinical applications. Evan Ruff, Co-Founder and CEO at OXOS Medical Digital imaging is at an inflection point.

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 6, 2023

According to a new report , CMS’s minimum staffing proposal for nursing homes would require nursing home operators to hire 102,000 additional nurses at a cost of $6.8B. The largest non-profit nursing home providers own 30% of the nursing homes in the country.

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Hall Render

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Since the release of its first compliance program guidance (“CPG”) for hospitals in 1998, OIG has developed a series of voluntary CPGs directed at various subsets of the health care industry, such as hospitals, nursing homes, third-party billing companies, clinical laboratories, among many others.

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Hall Render

JULY 12, 2023

CMS’ goal is to select SFP hospices starting in 2024. Selection Approach In establishing the proposed SFP, CMS examined the Special Focus Facility program for nursing homes and its methodology for facility selection. CMS proposes the hospice SFP begin on the effective date of the final rule when it is when published.

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Hall Render

MARCH 28, 2023

CMS has allowed states and nursing homes to suspend these assessments for new residents for thirty days. After 30 days, new patients admitted to nursing homes with a mental illness or intellectual disability should receive the assessment as soon as resources become available. COVID Testing Requirements.

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