Med-Net Compliance

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

They identified that 6,622 nursing homes had been cited for infection prevention and control program deficiencies as of February 26, 2020, and Medicare.gov indicated that 24 nursing homes were part of a nursing home chain. The OIG’s audit found that 23 of the 24 nursing homes had possible deficiencies.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Taffy for the nursing homes, lollipops for the device manufacturers…. But in the crisis, immunities rained down, Tossed freely around like candy at a 4th of July parade. Most healthy, smiling faces in the crowd got some. just raise your hand. going once, going twice…. to the nice gentleman who donated. will last beyond the pandemic.

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Med-Net Compliance

AUGUST 4, 2022

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) conducted an audit and found that selected nursing homes may not have complied with federal requirements for infection prevention and control and emergency preparedness. Specifically, 28 of 39 nursing homes they audited had possible deficiencies.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JULY 5, 2023

On June 30, 2023, the New York State Department of Health (DOH) issued a notice to nursing home operators and administrators announcing that it will begin conducting assessments on July 10, 2023 of nursing homes’ compliance with the State’s minimum staffing requirements.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2021

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers and clinicians have pointed to behavioral health as a particularly effective use case for telehealth and virtual care. But what about after the public health emergency?

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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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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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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

. – Effective October 1, 2022, state law will require the state-designated HIE to provide data in real-time to individuals and organizations involved in the treatment and care coordination of patients and to public health officials to support public health goals. will be able to operate more effectively.

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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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Hall Render

JANUARY 15, 2025

Effective January 1, 2025, Illinois enacted a law that contains several updates to Illinoiss change of ownership (CHOW) laws for nursing homes. Changes to Illinois CHOW Laws Illinois Public Act 103-0776 (CHOW Law) replaces Sections 3-112, 3-113 and 3-114 of the Illinois Nursing Home Care Act (the “Act”).

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 10, 2023

As nursing homes look for funds to allow them to improve care and train nursing home staff, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released QSO-23-23-NH (“CMS Memo”), which reopens and recasts the Civil Money Penalty Reinvestment Program (“CMPRP”).

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 12, 2022

For example, imagine a bed-bound nursing home resident dies after contracting COVID-19. She was simultaneously exposed to the virus by facility staff whom the facility had negligently failed to provide with appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) and by a fellow resident with a traumatic brain injury.

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Effective October 1, 2023, Connecticut enacted a law that contains several updates to Connecticut’s change of ownership laws for nursing homes and other health care providers. A description of the proposed transaction resulting in such change, including the name of each current owner of the facility or institution.

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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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MedTrainer

MAY 4, 2023

The end of the federal Public Health Emergency (PHE) will reinstate regulations that have been absent for years… and many healthcare workers have never had to follow. There are plenty of compliance implications for the end of the Public Health Emergency on May 11, 2023 , and an assessment is a great place to start.

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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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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 News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

CMS issued temporary measures to make it easier for people enrolled in Medicare, Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) to receive medical care through telehealth services during the COVID-19 public health emergency. This trend in remote access to care has expanded widely and is expected to continue.

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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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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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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 13, 2025

This stark disparity revealed that nursing homes were particularly vulnerable during the pandemic, with high transmission and fatality rates in these congregate settings. Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs), commonly known as nursing homes, represented about 80% of LTC COVID deaths, making them the deadliest place to live during COVID.

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Healthcare Compliance Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

A mother and her two daughters have been charged for providing fraudulent COVID-19 vaccination cards to maintain and obtain employment at a New York nursing home. Vaccination is mandatory for nursing home employment in New York. New York State Health Commissioner Dr. Mary T.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 24, 2022

As described in the latest ONC Standards Bulletin , v3 expands the USCDI from 52 data elements in 16 classes to 94 elements in 19 classes, with additions focusing on equity, public health, and documenting health insurance coverage.

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YouCompli

AUGUST 2, 2022

The Federal government spent unprecedented trillions of dollars throughout the COVID public health emergency (PHE). MorseLife Nursing Home Health System was alleged to have provided vaccines to individuals who were not eligible under this program. In April 2022, officials at the U.S. Let’s look at a few.

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Provider Trust

AUGUST 9, 2023

Leveraging Oversight To Protect Nursing Home Residents Better Enhancing the quality of care in nursing homes remains paramount to OIG. Through years of oversight, they have discovered various obstacles and weaknesses within nursing home facilities.

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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. If their data could be helpful, they were willing to make it available.

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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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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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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Ultimately, the demands of my great grandmother, as her illnesses progressed, became so much that we couldn’t keep her at home. This wonderful and fiercely independent person who never wanted to live in a facility, spent the last year of life in a nursing home.

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MedTrainer

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Keys to managing point-of-care testing complianceIn an effort to combat the spread of the virus and to help nursing homes protect the health and safety of their residents, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is distributing SARS-CoV-2 antigen diagnostic tests to more than 14,000 facilities.

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MedTrainer

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In an effort to combat the spread of the virus and to help nursing homes protect the health and safety of their residents, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is distributing SARS-CoV-2 antigen diagnostic tests to more than 14,000 facilities. HHS argued antigen testing is the best option available.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 17, 2025

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a determination titled Determination That A Public Health Emergency Exists (the California PHE Determination), that decided a public health emergency exists and has existed since January 7, 2025, in the State of California (California Public Health Emergency).

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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. Some ready-made CSS tools that states will find useful include: . Agile Technology Tools.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

“Regulators, for their part, have tried to smooth the way for a pivot to virtual during the public health emergency. "Early on, CMS relaxed several administrative requirements; that resulted in physician relief, at least for the duration of the public health emergency."

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HIPAA & Health IT

MAY 19, 2023

Interoperability capabilities may include: Sending/accepting electronic referrals; An established electronic health records (EHR) system and maintenance of same; and Payor portals.

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