With 2025 underway, the AFS Health Care team highlights some of the most pressing legal issues facing the health care industry this year....more
On November 20, 2024, the US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued its Industry Segment-Specific Compliance Program Guidance for Nursing Facilities (Nursing Facility ICPG)....more
1/9/2025
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How Massachusetts senior living providers need to be thinking about the recently enacted Long Term Care Reform Law and a recent Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services audit of nursing homes....more
11/4/2024
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An outcome of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the attractiveness of innovative care alternatives, for patients and providers alike. One model that has become increasingly popular in the United States (and which is already...more
On February 15, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a proposed rule which would require greater disclosures of the ownership and management of Medicare and Medicaid nursing homes. Specifically,...more
The Biden Administration has embraced an aggressive and multi-part agenda designed to improve the safety and quality of care nationally in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). The Biden Administration’s nursing home agenda...more
12/16/2022
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Across the country, health care providers have struggled during the COVID-19 pandemic in the face of declining revenue and increased expenses.
This financial stress has adversely affected almost all entities within the...more