This year, health lawyers, providers, consultants, and government experts from across the country convened in Orlando, Florida, for the American Health Law Association’s Long Term and Post-Acute Care Law and Compliance...more
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Skilled Nursing Facility
All Medicare-certified skilled nursing facilities (“SNFs”) must be surveyed annually and not more than every 15 months, as well as on other occasions, such as for complaint investigations and revisits to determine compliance...more
AGG’s Home Health & Hospice team publishes a quarterly newsletter covering legal and regulatory topics specific to the home and community-based healthcare industry. The fields of end-of-life and home healthcare present...more
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) is responsible for regulating and overseeing skilled nursing facilities (“SNFs”) that participate in the Medicare and/or Medicaid programs. To ensure that SNFs are in...more
Background - This is the story of Life Care Center – Kirkland (LCCK), a skilled nursing facility (SNF) located in Kirkland, Washington. LCCK was the “index facility,” meaning it was the first known nursing facility in the...more
On April 19, 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a Quality, Safety and Oversight Group (QSO) memorandum to all State Survey Agency Directors. In that memorandum, CMS notes that it plans to...more
On July 18, 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a proposed rule that, among other significant changes, would improve the informal dispute resolution (IDR) and the independent informal dispute...more