Healthcare Compliance Blog

MAY 5, 2022

Massachusetts’ Attorney General has secured settlements with five Massachusetts nursing homes to resolve allegations of patient neglect, insufficient staff training, and inadequate care for vulnerable nursing home residents. They also failed to report the significant health declines of one resident to a physician.

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Modern Healthcare

APRIL 15, 2022

“And while we are learning to live with this virus and when we should ramp up and ramp down with our preparedness, we are able to move on from these orders which served a very important purpose,” said Manisha Juthani, the state's public health commissioner.

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Med-Net Compliance

JUNE 14, 2022

An Illinois nursing home was fined $25,000 after the Illinois Department of Public Health determined it failed to implement progressive interventions to prevent falls. The post Illinois Nursing Home Fined $25,000 over Resident’s Fall appeared first on Med-Net.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 16, 2022

spread between nursing homes. These facilities, like most nursing homes, are for-profit businesses that pad their margins by cutting labor costs. In theory, all this care could be delivered in seniors’ homes and communities. Recall that the first COVID-19 outbreak in the U.S.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 6, 2024

billion in annual operating revenue, Memorial Healthcare System is one of the largest public health systems in the U.S. With 15,000 team members, 3,000 providers and $3.1 THE PROBLEM Memorial began offering on-demand virtual urgent care to its employees and patients via a third-party vendor in 2016.

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Hall Render

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

In addition, sections 1819(d)(4)(B) and 1919(d)(4)(B) of the Act explicitly authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services (“HHS Secretary”) to issue any regulations he deems necessary to protect the health and safety of residents. Due to the nature of interim final rules, this requirement would have expired in May 2023.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 11, 2020

This week, I’m sharing all the letters of the alphabet with you which reminded me keywords and themes emerging as we were learning about this dastardly public health threat beginning early in 2020. In particular, the hottest spot appeared to be a nursing home where one resident had been diagnosed with COVID-19 on February 28.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2021

and the issue of pandemic preparedness for the next “Disease X” became part of global public health planning. But the biggest health threat to human life is climate change, according to a new report from the World Health Organization titled The Health Argument for Climate Action.

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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 IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 13, 2023

In February, the company announced a partnership to serve as a catalyst for enrolling hospitals, nursing homes and other healthcare providers and to help them with targeted population health initiatives.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 24, 2022

The HHS Office for Civil Rights resolved 11 investigations as part of its HIPAA Right of Access Initiative , issuing fines ranging from $3,500 for a Massachusetts psychiatric consultant to $240,000 for the 17-hospital Memorial Hermann Health System. “It

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

In the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, connected health and RPM are more important than ever, because they enable physicians to monitor patients without having to come into contact with them, thus preventing the spread of the novel coronavirus.

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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.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 4, 2022

At the micro-level, the lack of data interoperability means that patient data cannot be easily shared between the hospital that the patient visited and the family physician that regularly takes care of them…or between the nursing home and the urgent care clinic. It doesn’t have to be this way.

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MedTrainer

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Medical and mental/behavioral health providers must adhere to licensing requirements — set by the Alaska State Medical Board and Alaska Division of Behavioral Health — to ensure that patients receive safe and effective care.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 13, 2023

Consolidating and coordinating information between providers, payers and public health departments is particularly tough, not only because there are so many providers, but because of the variability between data platforms and systems. Different communities are challenged by different population health needs.

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Health Law Attorney

JANUARY 13, 2022

The Supreme Court determined that allowing OSHA to impose such a mandate would expand its authority by allowing it to set broad public health measures, which it is not authorized to set. Significantly, the Supreme Court determined that OSHA lacked the authority to impose such a vaccine mandate.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 18, 2022

The Department of Health and Human Services extended the public health emergency through April 16, 2022. Since the pandemic began, nursing homes and assisted living facilities have lost more than 400,000 jobs. Staffing shortages at home health agencies and nursing homes are creating problems at hospitals.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The early 2020s will be studied by historians as a time of global uncertainty when an unknown pathogen caused a public health emergency that brought the world to the brink. Remote delivery of clinical care services continued through audio-visual conferencing technology that allowed hospitals to be kept clear of confirmed cases.

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Hall Render

JUNE 10, 2022

Lawmakers introduce bill criminalizing violence, threats against hospital employees. Most hospitals failing price transparency rule. Nurses lobby for ‘RaDonda’s Law’ Physician compensation now above pre-pandemic levels. Shooting at Tulsa hospital exposes vulnerability of health care facilities.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Google doesn’t take you to a hospital website. It doesn’t take you to a health plan website. – About 23 percent of caregivers say caregiving has made their own health worse , up from 17 percent in 2015. Who Cares for the Caregivers? Try Googling the word “caregiving.” In addition, President Biden’s $1.9

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Provider Trust

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Most healthcare services involve some sort of care by nurses including private practices, primary care clinics, home health, nursing homes, hospices, and more. Read on to learn more about nursing license verification in an ongoing pandemic and public health emergency. workforce as a whole.

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Hall Render

MAY 20, 2022

AHA responds to report on hospitals’ requested price hikes to insurers. AHA asks HHS to continue the public health emergency until conditions stabilize. Considerations for Social Determinants of Health Screening Design. COVID-19 public health emergency set to be extended. Arkansas Gets $3.9M

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 18, 2024

A recent report by Moody’s forecasted hospital operating margins to stay low in 2025 due to a steep rise in health care wages and reimbursement rates that are not keeping pace with rising costs. The report indicated that salaries and benefits now comprise 53% of nonprofit hospitals’ expenses.

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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 Law Today

JANUARY 20, 2022

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) has delayed the enforcement penalties for the new notice requirements under the “Patients First Law” until July 1, 2022. ” For in-network providers, this obligation is only required if the patient asks for this information.

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MedTrainer

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The Healthcare Association of New York State provides leadership, representation, and service to not-for-profit and public hospitals, health systems, nursing homes, and other healthcare organizations throughout New York state.

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SQA

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Ma rketing authorization holders (MAHs) can now register their Industry Single Point of Contact (i-SPOC) who will inform EMA about the supply and availability of critical medicines identified in the context of a ‘public health emergency’ or a ‘major event’. The products are private labeled for Major Pharmaceuticals.

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Hall Render

MAY 13, 2022

340B hospitals amplify loss projections as more drugmakers unveil restrictions. 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 hospitals were just ranked for safety: See how yours fared. HHS awards $16.3M

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MedTrainer

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

New Jersey Healthcare Compliance Resources Let’s start with the important state government agencies you’ll need to work with: The New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH) oversees various departments and initiatives aimed at ensuring public health, such as disease control, environmental health, emergency preparedness, and health equity.

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MedTrainer

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The Nebraska Hospital Association (NHA) represents and advocates for Nebraska’s hospitals and health systems, working to improve healthcare delivery and patient care across the state. The law controls the growth of healthcare services, particularly in areas such as rehabilitation and nursing home beds.

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Provider Trust

JANUARY 25, 2024

Despite the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) efforts to target long-standing problematic areas (such as hospice, home health, hospital outpatient, and skilled nursing facility care), the battle against improper payments within Medicare fee-for-service programs remains challenging.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JUNE 22, 2023

It also requires the Comptroller to study the feasibility of centralizing state-wide contracts to consolidate the purchasing of drugs by state agencies, state hospitals, state-operated mental health authorities, and other public entities. If established, the drug will be removed from the list prior to publication.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 31, 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 CMS as they embark on complying with the new CMS COVID-19 vaccine requirements for their staff. COVID-19 Staff Vaccination Matrix.

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CMS.gov

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Nursing facilities. Ultimately, these measures may help patients choose the nursing home, hospital, or clinician that is best for them, and can help providers to provide the highest quality of care across care settings. Thu, 11/30/2017 - 15:28. Kate Goodrich, M.D., Initiatives. Leadership. End-Stage Renal Disease.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

48 hospitals on Forbes’ list of best employers. Hospitals plead with Congress to tackle workforce shortages. Hospitals urge HHS to fix, not end, direct contracting model. Lawmakers call on Biden to end public health emergency. Only 14% of Hospitals Met Price Transparency Rule Compliance. .

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