Modern Healthcare

JULY 31, 2023

Skilled nursing faciltiies will receive a higher Medicare pay bump in fiscal 2024 than proposed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in April.

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McBrayer Law Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

More > Tags: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services , Civil Penalties , CMS , Healthcare Providers , Long-Term Care , Long-Term Care Facilities , Medicare. For reference, the 2017 Guidance can be found here. The accompanying CMP Analytic Tool can be found here.)

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 31, 2023

In what the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) today described as a “parity adjustment recalibration,” the agency said it will

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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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Medicare Medicare Nursing Homes Medicaid 93

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 18, 2020

On Tuesday, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services expanded its Medicare telehealth coverage during the COVID-19 pandemic to enable more patients to get virtual care services from their providers. ON THE RECORD.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 6, 2023

Joel Landau, founder and chairman of The Allure Group Nursing homes have embraced technology, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, to help seniors, staff, and clinicians better communicate with one another and for residents to stay in touch with loved ones. Nursing homes are evolving. percent of U.S.

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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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C&M Health Law

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services, through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued a much anticipated and contested proposed rule that seeks to establish minimum staffing level requirements for nursing homes. hours of nursing staff per resident per day, or 3.0 HPRD from nurse aids (NAs). [2]

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 30, 2020

Signers pointed out that the authorities granted to the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are restricted to the public health emergency period triggered by COVID-19. introduced legislation earlier this month to codify Medicare reimbursement of virtual care at FQHCs and RHCs.

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Healthcare Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

As a nurse, it is crucial to understand the difference between nursing procedures and policies. Nurses need a basic understanding of the differences between the two concepts. A nursing procedure is a set of steps necessary to carry out a specific activity, such as administering medication.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 18, 2022

Social determinants of health are major contributors to health inequity and rising healthcare costs in vulnerable populations such as Medicaid beneficiaries. That said, hospital social workers and nurse discharge planners are accustomed to having to help patients with these types of issues during an inpatient admission.

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Healthicity

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Medicaid Fraud Control Units.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

What You Should Know: – The American Nurses Association (ANA) , representing the interests of the nation’s 4.2 million nurses, urges the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to declare the current and unsustainable nurse staffing shortage facing our country a national crisis. ”

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Modern Healthcare

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services published a proposed rule that aims to promote transparency in the often opaque realm of nursing home ownership.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 28, 2020

More than 100 physician groups, led by the American Medical Association, told the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in no uncertain terms this past week that, while they supported temporary regulatory relaxations in response to COVID-19, they were strongly opposed to certain rules changes being made permanent. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 4, 2022

" Rhonda Collins, RN, chief nursing officer at Vocera, developer of clinical communication tools, also hopes to see a redoubled effort to address the many significant challenges facing the workforce and the workplace as the COVID-19 crisis continues into its third year.

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Healthcare Law Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2022

On October 21, 2022, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced changes to its Special Focus Facility (SFF) program, including new steps to address nursing home facilities that fail to graduate from the SFF program in a timely manner, or “yo-yo” back into non-compliance after graduating from the SFF program.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

More than 85% of the patients served by Temple are covered by government programs, including Medicare and Medicaid. Patients dually eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid make up roughly half of the Medicare inpatient base. More than 40% of total inpatient cases include a behavioral health diagnosis.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

While there are privacy, security and regulatory expectations (for example, the Joint Commission, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services , private insurance) for telemedicine programs, there is not yet an official group evaluating or designating maturity levels for these programs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

"We have seen all too often criminals who engage in health care fraud – stealing from taxpayers while jeopardizing the health of Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries," said Deputy Inspector General for Investigations Gary L. More than $1.1 billion of that loss involved allegedly fraudulent claims related to telemedicine.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has finalized a rule that will require more transparency into nursing home ownership. | The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has finalized a rule that will require more transparency into nursing home ownership.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 30, 2021

In 2017, the health system – which has 100 continuing care locations, including home care, hospice, PACE programs and senior living facilities – was in a bind, facing double-digit hospital readmissions of 16% across its high-risk Medicare population. THE PROBLEM. Trinity needed to reduce readmissions to single digits.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 6, 2021

The virtual hospital is staffed 24/7 by remote monitoring technicians, and includes tele-nurses, tele-hospitalists and tele-advance practice providers, depending on patients' acuity. Patients and family agree to have phones nearby at all times, so tele-nurses and technicians can reach out to validate new alerts. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) began to allow for reimbursement for videoconferencing between healthcare provider and patient. According to CMS.gov , CMS is expanding access to telehealth services with Medicare. If they have COVID-19, they can continue in isolation and prevent the spread of the illness.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The system's options include its Consulting Nurse Service, Care Chat online messaging and video and phone visits; about 65% of appointments are now conducted virtually. The new health plan will allow members to reach out via phone, online chat, video or email for non-urgent issues. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

The law will also make permanent measures to expand scope of practice for nurse practitioners, nurse anesthetists, psychiatric nurse mental health specialists and optometrists, as well as eliminating referral requirements before urgent care visits, among other provisions. Congress to enact more lasting changes. ON THE RECORD.

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COVID-19 Medical Billing Nurses Health Care Access 159

Hall Render

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

In 2023, nursing homes have seen increased citations by surveyors for noncompliance tied to their pre-dispute, binding agreements for binding arbitration with their residents. The Arbitration Regulations revised the requirements for arbitration agreements when they are used by nursing homes to resolve disputes with their residents.

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Compliancy Group

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Its compliance program guidance (CPG) has improved the efficiency and effectiveness of Medicare and many other federal programs. Last November, the OIG published industry-specific compliance guidance for 2024 for several healthcare subsectors, including nursing homes and facilities.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 25, 2020

"The FCC COVID-19 Telehealth Program will enable Parker to reduce patient face-to-face encounters in the nursing home and the possible impact of COVID-19, reduce PPE, and minimize staff burden." Parker serves medically complex and severely immunocompromised, frail elderly patients requiring intense skilled nursing and medical care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The bill, the Telehealth Extension Act , would also end geographic and site restrictions on approved telemedicine services for Medicare beneficiaries. Despite being broadly popular on both sides of the aisle , the geographic- and site-related Medicare provisions the new bill would establish have yet to be enshrined by Congress.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 5, 2020

These new changes will apply to healthcare-quality measurement beginning this year, according to NCQA, and align with recent telehealth guidance from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and other federal and state regulators. Hospitalization Following Discharge from a Skilled Nursing Facility. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 3, 2024

As CMS targets having all Traditional Medicare beneficiaries and most Medicaid beneficiaries in accountable care relationships by 2030, there is an urgent need for healthcare providers, particularly those serving the 65+ demographic, to adopt value-based approaches. .

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MedTrainer

AUGUST 8, 2024

As of March 2024, over 67 million in the United States are Medicare beneficiaries. Medicare is the single largest payer for healthcare services in the United States. In FY2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ( CMS ) reported that Medicare processed more than 1.1 Here’s what you need to know.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Wednesday took several new steps to help U.S. b) and (b)(1) of the Hospital Conditions of Participation, which require nursing services to be provided on premises 24 hours a day, seven days a week and the immediate availability of a registered nurse for care of any patient.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 12, 2021

Q: What are the benefits of RPM during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic, especially among underserved, uninsured or Medicaid populations, where already there are disproportionately high rates of chronic disease and other barriers to care? Q: Who on the care team should be managing RPM (doctors versus nurses, case managers, etc.)?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

In just the past two week, for instance, Memora Health announced its work with Mayo Clinic on on a virtual home-based postpartum care initiative , and Allina Health spinoff Inbound Health announced its plans to help other providers develop home-based acute care and skilled nursing models.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

In order to reduce labor-market and regulatory hurdles, Auerswald recommended that states reform licensing restrictions to allow nurse practitioners and other nonphysicians to do more in terms of chronic and wellness care, and that the U.S. However, he said, the barriers currently in place prevent unfettered expansion into these arenas.

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