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
On June 18, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services published new guidance announcing a major change to the way Care Compare will display survey information and the methodology for calculating the health inspection score...more
Skilled Nursing Facilities and their operational associates need to prepare themselves now for new disclosure requirements that require much greater disclosure of ownership as well as disclosure from a much broader class of...more
There has been much publicity surrounding the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (“CMS”) new minimum staffing requirements for long-term care facilities scheduled to take effect starting in 2026 for non-rural...more
On May 22, 2024, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) announced that it would be implementing updated 2024 spousal impoverishment standards that will take effect on July 1, 2024....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
On August 25, 2020 the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued interim final regulations known as CMS-3401-IFC that become effective immediately upon publication in the Federal Register, scheduled for September...more
In August, Benesch published a client bulletin outlining new change of operator (“CHOP”) license requirements for long-term care facilities in Ohio that were approved as part of the Ohio Fiscal Year 2020-2021 Operating Budget...more
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (“CMS”) this week released its long-awaited nursing facility “Mega-Rule,” the most comprehensive revision of CMS’s requirements for nursing homes since 1991. CMS said that the new...more