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On January 29, the New York State Office of the Medicaid Inspector General (OMIG) published its 2025 Work Plan, which provides a preview of the OMIG’s program integrity initiatives for the upcoming year. While this post...more
On December 4, 2024, OIG issued its fall 2024 Semiannual Report to Congress (the Report), which provides a comprehensive overview of the agency’s work completed during the reporting period of April 1, 2024, through September...more
In this episode, AGG Post-Acute & Long-Term Care co-chair Jason Bring is joined by Kathy Barton and Natalie McNeal of Northeast Georgia Health System. Kathy and Natalie share insights on navigating the complexities of hospice...more
UPIC activity is picking up, and the UPICs are reviving some old tactics. In this episode, Husch Blackwell’s Meg Pekarske and Bryan Nowicki continue the discussion on these trends which include extrapolation, Medicaid nursing...more
With the end of the first quarter of 2024, we highlight five developments, changes, or challenges that health systems, hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, physician practices, health insurers, and other health care providers,...more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG), a top federal watchdog tasked with overseeing Medicare, Medicaid and other HHS programs, recently announced that it will audit the...more
Summary - The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS OIG) has announced its intention to comprehensively review nursing home citations issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...more
On January 18, 2023, CMS issued a Quality, Safety & Oversight Group memorandum announcing its initiative to improve nursing home safety and transparency. Specifically, CMS will conduct audits to determine whether nursing...more
Summary - CMS has announced it is engaging in a new series of audits intended to address the agency’s concern that nursing homes could be miscoding schizophrenia to reduce their reported rates of antipsychotic use, and...more
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an enormous need for testing and has spawned the creation of new labs and specimen collection agencies to (try to) meet that need. In 2020 alone, Medicare spent $1.5 billion on COVID-19 tests....more
In December 2021, OIG issued its Semiannual Report to Congress (SAR) covering OIG’s activities for the reporting period of April 1, 2021 through September 30, 2021, as well as the entire Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 (October 1, 2020...more
On April 19, 2021, HHS OIG Principal Deputy Inspector General Christi A. Grimm gave the keynote address at the Health Care Compliance Association’s 25th Annual Compliance Institute wherein she highlighted 10 key compliance...more
Late last week New York Attorney General Letitia James released a report that found the state Department of Health underreported COVID-19 deaths of nursing home residents by as much as 50 percent. The report – generated...more
This 27th edition of Unprecedented, our weekly update on COVID-19-related litigation, sees us start with a discussion of a trend toward class actions, with later discussions on two key areas -- insurance coverage disputes and...more
On September 19, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released guidance establishing the reporting requirements for health care providers that received Provider Relief Fund (PRF) payments. These reporting...more
On June 12, 2019, OIG released two audit reports, A-01-17-00513 and A-01-16-00509, as part of its efforts to improve identification, reporting, and investigation of potential abuse and neglect of Medicare beneficiaries. OIG’s...more
The OIG's April 2018 Work Plan update added six new items to its active list of scheduled audits, inspections, and evaluations. The OIG indicates its intention to review beneficiary access to drugs under Part D, as well as...more
Beginning in June 2017, the OIG began making monthly Work Plan updates. These monthly updates create some practical challenges for health care providers and compliance professionals trying to make operational and compliance...more
Executive Summary - The United States Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (“OIG”) published its Fiscal Year 2017 Work Plan (“2017 Plan”) on November 10, 2016. The work plan is...more
On November 30, 2015, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report on nursing home quality. The Report examines (1) the extent to which reported nursing home quality has changed in recent years and the...more
On June 29 and 30, 2015, the Connecticut General Assembly conducted a special legislative session following the close of the 2015 regular session. Among other things, the General Assembly passed a bill to implement the state...more
The Office of the Medicaid Inspector General (OMIG) was recently given a set-back in its on-going audits of nursing home case mix submissions. These audits focus on “Patient Review Instruments” (PRIs) which form the basis of...more
Recent audits by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) conclude that state survey agencies in a number of states and a leading national accrediting agency serving the home health and...more
In this issue: - A Sign of the Times: Nonpayment of Resident Accounts, Transfer/Discharge and Related Issues - Responding to an Audit? Be Prepared! - Ken’s Quote of the Month An excerpt from...more
It’s surely a sign of economic times that Poyner Spruill’s long term care lawyers have seen a marked increase in the number of clients calling us for assistance with nonpaying residents. While providers have seen...more