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A Balanced Approach: 10 Key Strategies to Minimize Bad Debt and Avoid Involuntary Terminations in Senior Living Communities

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Senior living communities operate in a highly regulated and financially demanding environment, requiring operators to maintain fiscal stability while delivering exceptional care. As the senior population grows, providers face...more

Hudson Cook, LLP

CFPB Bites of the Month - 2024 Annual Review - Debt Collection

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In this article, we share a timeline of our monthly "bites" for 2024 applicable to debt collection practices. Like 2023, the theme of 2024 was medical debt collection....more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Troutman Pepper Weekly Consumer Financial Services Newsletter - November 2024

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To keep you informed of recent activities, below are several of the most significant federal and state events that have influenced the Consumer Financial Services industry over the past week...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Seventh Circuit Signals Ongoing Importance of Compliance with Medicare “Bad Debt” Regulations

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In a recent decision, U.S. ex rel. Sibley v. Univ. of Chicago Medical Center, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit considered allegations that two medical billing and debt collection companies, Medical Business...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Healthcare Law Update: September 2018

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Regulation - CMS Contemplating Telemedicine Changes - The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently published what it described as a "major proposed rule" that covers a number of topics that could have...more

Baker Donelson

Court Rules in Favor of Hospitals in Bad Debt Collection Effort

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On July 25, 2016, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia issued an opinion favoring provider flexibility in the reasonable collection of Medicare bad debt. Winder HMA, LLC, et al. v. Sylvia Burwell. The...more

King & Spalding

D.C. District Court Holds that CMS’s Rigid Application of the “Similar Collection Efforts” Requirement Violates the Bad Debt...

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In a case of first impression in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, brought by King & Spalding on behalf of Mountain States Health Alliance, the court held that CMS’s disallowance of certain Medicare bad...more

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Corridors Spring 2015 - News for North Carolina Hospitals

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In This Issue: - Nonprofit Hospitals Face Additional Regulatory Burdens in Financial Assistance and Debt Collection - Placing Medicare Beneficiaries Into "Observation Status" - Recent Second Circuit Decision...more

Baker Donelson

CMS Accepts Court Ruling That Bad Debt Still at Collection is Allowable

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As we reported in a recent Payment Matters article, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled this spring, for a second time, that a Medicare contractor is not permitted to disallow Medicare bad debt...more

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D.C. District Court Again Rules That Bad Debt at a Collection Agency is Allowable

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The United States District Court for the District of Columbia recently ruled, again, that a Medicare contractor is not permitted to disallow Medicare bad debts solely on the ground that the bad debt is still at an outside...more

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