Hall Render

JANUARY 10, 2025

A recent article predicted trends in the senior housing industry for 2025. The HHS OIG has recommended that CMS enhance its review of nursing homes’ related-party cost reporting. Hall Render blog posts and articles are intended for informational purposes only.

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MedTrainer

MARCH 8, 2024

In this article, we’ll explore the requirements for long-term care training as well as ways to ideas to simplify the delivery of training. The best courses are those created specifically for healthcare settings and that meet multiple regulatory requirements. Training requirements vary by employee role and specific healthcare setting.

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YouCompli

JANUARY 4, 2022

Unger, Chief of Medicaid Fraud Division, Office of the Massachusetts Attorney General; and Patrick Callahan, Healthcare Fraud Unit, US Attorney’s Office. Unger reported that her unit is focused on about 65% Medicare fraud and about 35% abuse and neglect. Millions in dollars in fraud are happening this way,” Callahan said.

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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

DECEMBER 11, 2024

OIGs new Industry Segment-Specific Compliance Program Guidance For Nursing Facilities (Nursing Facility ICPG) for nursing home members of the health care compliance community emphasizes the importance of staff screening and exclusion checks. Hall Render blog posts and articles are intended for informational purposes only.

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Hall Render

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) issued new Industry Segment-Specific Compliance Program Guidance For Nursing Facilities (“Nursing Facility ICPG”) for nursing home members of the health care compliance community. Hall Render blog posts and articles are intended for informational purposes only.

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Hall Render

JULY 12, 2023

Selection Approach In establishing the proposed SFP, CMS examined the Special Focus Facility program for nursing homes and its methodology for facility selection. Hall Render blog posts and articles are intended for informational purposes only. CMS’ goal is to select SFP hospices starting in 2024.

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Med Law Blog

MAY 1, 2023

This “fee obstacle” was what precipitated many of the bankruptcies in the 1990s physician practice management ventures, as mentioned in my prior article. In the article entitled “The Death of Hahnemann Hospital” published in the New Yorker magazine in May 2021.

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AIHC

JUNE 3, 2024

Part 1 in a series of articles to support World Elder Abuse Awareness Written by Joanne Byron, BS, LPN, CCA, CHA, CHCO, CHBS, CHCM, CIFHA, CMDP, OHCC, ICDCT-CM/PCS Please feel free to repost, print and make available to your workforce members. An article was published on April 30, 2024 by CBS News entitled Criminal schemes targeting U.S.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

This has been a growing trend in health care enforcement, and health care fraud remained the leading source of all FCA cases in 2022. Health Care Fraud Actions Medicaid. DOJ filed claims against multiple nursing homes and their management corporation for providing services that the DOJ alleged were grossly below the standard of care.

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AIHC

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The GCPG standardized the seven Elements of a Successful Compliance Program, which differs slightly from the individual compliance guidance documents (CPGs) directed at various segments of the health care industry, such as hospitals, nursing homes, third-party billers, and durable medical equipment suppliers.

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AIHC

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The GCPG standardized the seven Elements of a Successful Compliance Program, which differs slightly from the individual compliance guidance documents (CPGs) directed at various segments of the health care industry, such as hospitals, nursing homes, third-party billers, and durable medical equipment suppliers.

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Humana sues to reverse cut to Medicare Advantage ratings Karen Lynch steps down as CVS Health CEO Nursing home survey teams don’t always have to include nurses: federal appeals court Senate report: How private equity ‘gutted’ dozens of U.S. health care company acquires three Del.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 19, 2024

Workers at another D.C. Bipartisan Ky. hospital company Kansas City Orthopaedic Institute appoints new CEO Kansas City University’s new research center aims to answer: ‘How do we keep people well?’ Bipartisan Ky.

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Drug & Device Law

DECEMBER 29, 2023

2023) (First Amendment bars state-law misrepresentation claims over “truth” of published scientific article) ( here ); National Association of Wheat Growers v. 2023) ( Buckman preemption barred MDL asserting fraud on EPA), cert. C-8 Personal Injury Litigation , 87 F.4th 4th 315 (6th Cir. Infectious Diseases Society of America , 86 F.4th

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