HHS OIG’s Nursing Facility: Industry Segment-Specific Compliance Program Guidance
AGG Talks: Home Health & Hospice Podcast - Episode 10: Anti-Kickback Compliance for Hospice and Skilled Nursing Providers
Healthcare Industry Segment-Specific Compliance Program Guidances (ICPGs)
Williams Mullen's Strategies for Senior Care: The Upside of Compliance Plans for Senior Care Facilities
Williams Mullen's Strategies for Senior Care: Is Your Senior Care Facility Ready for Day One (and Two) of a Certification or Complaint Survey?
Williams Mullen's Strategies for Senior Care: Agency Investigations of Senior Care Facilities
Williams Mullen's Strategies for Senior Care: Crisis and Incident Response for Senior Care Facilities
Last month, New York State began a formal review of its Certificate of Need (CON) process for nursing homes, launching a timely conversation about how best to align regulatory oversight with evolving system needs. A new...more
Skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) historically have been required to disclose ownership and managerial control information as part of their Medicare enrollment. However, these requirements were significantly expanded to...more
The US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General’s (OIG’s) release of Nursing Facility Industry Segment-Specific Compliance Program Guidance (ICPG) for the first time since 2008 reemphasizes the...more
A Quiet Healthcare Week on Capitol Hill. Congress was largely in recess this week, although the Senate returned briefly to complete consideration of a long-awaited foreign aid bill. Both chambers will return to session the...more
In a long-awaited and controversial Final Rule posted on April 22, 2024, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) adopted new federal minimum staffing requirements that will require long-term care facilities to...more
Violence in the workplace is something all employers prohibit and try to prevent. Healthcare employers have a tougher time, because the violence often comes from patients. How do you best protect workers while still...more
Texas has now joined states like California in creating statutory protections against workplace violence against healthcare workers. Senate Bill 240, now Chapter 331 of the Texas Health and Safety Code, requires healthcare...more
This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights regulatory activity for November 2023. We discuss several US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agency actions, including the new General...more
On February 28, 2022, the Biden-Harris administration announced initiatives designed to improve care and accountability at skilled nursing facilities (SNF). Since that announcement, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...more
There are many rules and regulations governing attending physician visits and medical directors. Unfortunately, there is plenty of room for error when documenting attending physician visits, establishing medical director...more
On June 28, 2023, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed Public Act No. 23-97, “An Act Concerning Health and Wellness for Connecticut Residents.” The Act includes a wide range of provisions aimed at supporting health care...more
The Fiscal Responsibility Act, the product of intense negotiations between the White House and House Republican leadership, suspends the debt limit and outlines government spending cuts....more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have released the proposed updates to the Medicare payment policies and rates for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) for 2024. While the ruling is not final, “CMS estimates...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 December 23, 2022, New York Governor Kathy Hochul vetoed Assembly Bill Number 8472 entitled “An Act To Amend The Public Health Law, In Relation To The Establishment, Incorporation, Construction, Or Increase In Capacity Of...more
On February 28, 2022, the White House issued a fact sheet outlining several efforts aimed to increase safety, accountability, oversight and transparency in the senior services industry (Fact Sheet). Although the Fact Sheet’s...more
In recent months, there has been a lot of attention on decisions made during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York State in regard to nursing homes. Some of that attention has focused on an order issued in the...more
On July 31, 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized the hospice payment rule (CMS-1714-F), which is scheduled to be published on August 6, 2019. The rule updates hospice payment rates, wage index...more
ALERT: Health Reform Outlook for 2017: A Year of Major Uncertainty - Fulfilling their promises, Congressional Republicans moved to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on the first day of the new Congress when Senate...more
On August 13, 2015, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that 2,115 providers are participating in Phase 2 of the Medicare Bundled Payment for Care Improvement initiative (BPCI). These providers...more
In this presentation: - Health System Structure and Governance - Medical Staff Structure and Governance - Committee Structure - Medical Staff Categories - Medical Staff Governance Documents ...more