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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Healthcare Law Today

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Workplace violence has become one of the key management challenges and sources of enterprise risk for hospitals over the past several years. a patient who was acting out and shot in his hospital room by off-duty police officers following the failure of hospital staff to perform appropriate assessment and de-escalation of the patient.

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Healthcare Compliance Blog

JUNE 8, 2022

A Maine nursing home with a history of federal fines was listed as a special focus facility (SFF) after two residents wandered off in separate incidents last year. They were one mile from the nursing home, so police took her to the facility. In the second case, the resident was hit and killed by a motor vehicle.

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CMS.gov

APRIL 15, 2019

Ensuring Safety and Quality in America’s Nursing Homes. Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Nursing facilities. This duty is especially important when it comes to the care provided for some of the most vulnerable in our society, Americans residing in nursing homes. Jeremy.Booth@c….

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Hanys

MARCH 25, 2022

We encourage you to urge your legislators to make these investments.

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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. The Interim Final Rule will apply to any healthcare facility receiving Medicare or Medicaid reimbursement.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 5, 2022

How are hospitals and health systems turning to telehealth to address provider burnout as demand for behavioral health services mounts? It's also costly to transport elderly patients from nursing homes or assisted living facilities to clinics or hospitals and back, and then to a pharmacy. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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Jerri Lynn Ward

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Some repeatedly flouted the mandate without consequence, including one Tennessee emergency room with such long wait times that a pregnant woman had to be hospitalized for a week after an 8-hour wait and a man with chest pain collapsed in the lobby, then died. Try being a Nursing Home Who Does Something Like This.

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Hall Render

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

The COVID data reporting through the National Healthcare Safety Network (“NHSN”) was first required of nursing homes in May 2020 through an interim final rule. CMS took regulatory action through the Calendar Year 2022 Home Health Prospective Payment System rule to extend those requirements through December 31, 2024.

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MedTrainer

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Examples of covered entities include health plans, clearinghouses, and certain health care providers including but not limited to: doctors, clinics, psychologists, dentists, chiropractors, nursing homes, and pharmacies. There are a number of laws built to fight against Medicare/Medicaid noncompliance and fraud. Certification.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 14, 2024

A push to improve reimbursement for remote patient monitoring programs has stalled, and that could prompt health systems and hospitals to think twice about launching or expanding their platforms. The May CPT Editorial Panel meeting could prompt hospitals and health systems to think twice before launching or expanding RPM.

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Health Law RX

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

AHCA is sending out postcards to existing Florida Medicaid providers (Providers) alerting them to upcoming changes in the Florida Medicaid program. Providers are urged to sign into their account on the Florida Medicaid portal immediately. Medicaid Certified School Match Program Fee Schedule. Check your mailboxes.

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Hall Render

JUNE 30, 2022

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has given surveyors new rules and updates to allow surveyors to add extra attention and increase oversight in nursing homes regarding the quality of care and quality of life for residents.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 29, 2022

With a shortage of physicians to address the growing need for care, a lack of providers who accept Medicaid, and access issues due to transportation or office hour challenges, healthcare organizations are looking to technology to help bridge the gap. Addressing the increasing need for behavioral health services is a nationwide challenge.

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 6, 2024

A recent report found that financial stability and margins improved for nearly half of rural hospitals after a merger, acquisition or affiliation with a larger system. More than a quarter of rural hospitals currently have negative operating margins. According to a recent report, ASCs reduce U.S. health care costs by $38B annually.

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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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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The rise of the COVID-19 Delta variant and new immunization mandates creates concerns and complexities for hospitals, nursing homes, long-term care and other providers. No reimbursement from Medicare/Medicaid unless all workers are fully vaccinated.) Immunizing that population in itself is a significant undertaking.

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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 Additionally, this information is now publicly available on CMS’s COVID Nursing Home Data Website.

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Hanys

JANUARY 19, 2024

As illustrated by the results of our latest joint association fiscal survey , New York's hospitals and nursing homes continue to face unrelenting fiscal and workforce challenges that threaten access to patient care. Most importantly, state lawmakers must make a multi-year commitment to close the Medicaid funding gap.

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Hanys

APRIL 15, 2022

billion in capital funding; additional Medicaid support for financially distressed hospitals, nursing homes and other healthcare providers; telehealth payment parity; revisions to the Medicaid global cap; and supportive funding in several areas to bolster the healthcare worker pipeline.

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Hanys

JUNE 7, 2024

2465-C) Nursing home quality postings (A.2188/S.3498) 3498) Influenza virus vaccination at general hospitals (A.9866/S.9550) 2867) Medicaid reimbursement for TIP and TAD (A.9102-C/S.8486-C) 1267-A) Physician assistants under Medicaid managed care (A.7725/S.2124) 2465-C) Nursing home quality postings (A.2188/S.3498)

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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. While the CPG applies to all hospitals, practices, suppliers, and other healthcare entities, the ICPGs address the salient risk factors in each specific sector.

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Hall Render

JULY 5, 2023

When a patient is discharged from acute care, it is important that the acute care provider deliver accurate and appropriate patient information related to a patient’s treatment and condition in order to decrease the risk of readmission or an adverse event at the skilled nursing providers and home health agencies.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 13, 2023

They are asking providers to identify cancer patients and families who may qualify as ACP program enrollees, which includes households with Medicaid recipients and other federal subsidy programs, to provide them with the information they need to connect their patients with the Gilda's Club team supporting ACP enrollment.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

They also keep patients with less severe cases out of hospitals, so preserving precious bed space for patients with severe cases. Hospitals across the nation are using connected health and RPM to great effect during the pandemic.

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MedTrainer

JANUARY 30, 2024

Compliance is Mandatory for Federal Programs One constant is that organizations and facilities that participate in federal healthcare programs, such as Medicare and Medicaid, must have a compliance program. Nursing Homes: Skilled nursing facilities, long-term care facilities, and other types of nursing homes.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2024

Devices for medication adherence, blood pressure, blood sugar, and others help patients track metrics from their homes and enable providers access to the information in real-time to manage care remotely. In this way, patients can more efficiently reach their health goals or obtain the support needed to avoid an ED visit or hospitalization.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In this article, I’ll show how many hospitals, payers, and other institutions are acting on that data. Of course, the staff of a clinic or hospital don’t go around looking for apartments the way they actively look for a long-term care facility.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The pandemic generated uneven experiences for millions of Americans as physicians, therapists, nurse practitioners, hospitals and other caregivers – all coming to telehealth with varying levels of experience themselves – tried suddenly to meet patients where they were, said PwC researchers.

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Healthcare Law Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

According to the Congressional Research Service, which analyzed data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) National Health Expenditure Accounts (“NHEA”) on the personal health expenditures for LTSS by payer, in 2021, an estimated $467.4 billion was spent on LTSS. This represents 13.2% of LTSS spending. [5]

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Health Law Attorney

JANUARY 13, 2022

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“ CMS ”) has also taken recent action to implement a COVID-19 vaccine mandate. In November 2021, CMS issued an Interim Final Rule (“ IFR ”) that would require facilities receiving Medicare and Medicaid funding to ensure that their staff are vaccinated against COVID-19.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 16, 2022

On the revenue side, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have indicated plans to cut reimbursements for home-based healthcare services by 4.2% I have worked in a nursing home facility before and I personally understand how hard it is to make that transition. He keeps me here.

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MedTrainer

AUGUST 1, 2022

Medicare and Medicaid services are the backbone for supporting elderly and disabled Americans. Established in 1976, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) was created to fight fraud and abuse in Medicare and Medicaid. Patients commonly stay at skilled nursing facilities after their hospital visit to recover.

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Healthcare Compliance Blog

APRIL 14, 2022

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) released their findings of an audit they conducted to determine if hospital admissions of Indiana skilled nursing facility (SNF) residents who are enrolled in both Medicare and Medicaid (dually eligible beneficiaries) were potentially avoidable, and if level-of-care requirements for Medicare were met.

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Health Care Law Brief

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Perhaps most importantly, we have learned that hospitals’ pre-COVID emergency management and disaster preparedness plans were insufficient to handle the scale, intensity, and duration of a health disaster like COVID-19. All hospitals everywhere were strapped for resources. The expansion of telehealth is a primary example of this.

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Hall Render

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

MOBs adjacent to a hospital campus often have rents between on-campus and off-campus rates. CMS’s proposed nursing home staffing requirements will have a big impact on the industry. According to a KFF report , fewer than 1 in 5 nursing homes will meet the new requirements.

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HIPAA Journal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

As a teenager, I volunteered in hospitals and nursing homes. That led to my serving as the Privacy Officer for the hospital beginning with the implementation of the Privacy Rule. My first professional experience in healthcare was as a licensed social worker in an acute care hospital. It’s truly amazing.

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