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AGG Talks: Home Health & Hospice Podcast - Episode 8: Hospice Special Focus Program: Pumping the Brakes

In this episode, AGG Healthcare attorneys Bill Dombi and Jason Bring discuss the hospice special focus program and CMS’ announcement that it will cease implementing the program in the face of litigation filed by providers and...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Sequestration and the Hospice Cap 2.0: Pending Legislation May Extend the Sequestration Moratorium

In the wake of the government-wide sequestration cuts in 2011, the hospice industry was not spared. Medicare hospice payments were reduced by two percent in accordance with a sequestration order issued March 1, 2013, pursuant...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Healthcare Fraud & Abuse Review 2017

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A LOOK BACK... A LOOK AHEAD - While the uncertainty associated with legislative efforts to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) dominated most of the headlines for the healthcare industry last year,...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

OIG Work Plan Series Installment Two - Long Term Care - Nursing Homes, Hospice, and Home Health

In early November 2015, the Department of Health & Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) released its 2016 Work Plan, which includes projects specific to certain provider types. This alert will focus on the...more

King & Spalding

CMS Issues Final Rule Regarding Required Agreements Between Long Term Care Facilities and Hospices

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Beginning August 26, 2013, skilled nursing facilities participating in Medicare and nursing facilities participating in Medicaid (collectively referred to as “long-term care facilities”) that choose to arrange for the...more

McDermott Will & Emery

New Requirement for LTC Facilities That Arrange Hospice Services through a Medicare-Certified Hospice

Effective August 26, 2013, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services require that a long-term care, or LTC, facility that chooses to arrange for the provision of hospice services through a Medicare-certified hospice must...more

Morgan Lewis

CMS Rule Complicates Long-Term Care Facility and Hospice Relationships

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Final rule aims to improve the quality and consistency of care between long-term care facilities and hospice providers but may increase conflict between facility and provider staff. ...more

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