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Dentons

Ep. 32 – An Easy Audit Tip to Help Avoid Overpayments

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Looking for a simple, easy-to-implement way to lower your risk of overpayments? We have one on this week’s podcast!...more

Alston & Bird

Health Care Week in Review: CMS Finalizes FY 2025 Payment Rules for Inpatient Hospitals, Inpatient Rehab Facilities, Inpatient...

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Below is Alston & Bird’s Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in health care regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional committee action; reports, studies,...more

Stotler Hayes Group, LLC

Understanding Medicare Coverage for Nursing Home Care: Confusion Can Be Costly

As a lawyer, I have exclusively represented long-term care healthcare providers for over ten years.  I have gained useful insight into how people plan—or, in many cases, fail to plan—for the possibility that they may need...more

Epstein Becker & Green

CMS Finalizes Rule Establishing Minimum Staffing Standards for Long-Term Care Facilities

On April 22, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued Medicare and Medicaid Programs: Minimum Staffing Standards for Long-Term Care Facilities and Medicaid Institutional Payment Transparency Reporting,...more

Baker Donelson

"Let's Stay Together" - Managing The Changing Relationships Between Hospitals and Skilled Nursing Facilities

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Skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) owned or operated by hospitals (hospital-owned SNFs) have a demonstrated track record of delivering positive outcomes for post-acute care patients. Such success, however, has not been without...more

McDermott+

McDermottPlus Check-Up: April 26, 2024

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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

Alston & Bird

Health Care Week in Review: CMS Releases IPPS Proposed Rule; Congress Holds Hearings on Chronic Care and Telehealth

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Below is Alston & Bird’s Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in health care regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional committee action; reports, studies,...more

Morgan Lewis

CMS Rule Targeting Private Equity and REIT Ownership of Nursing Facilities Now in Effect

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Effective January 16, 2024, a new rule promulgated by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will significantly expand disclosure requirements for skilled nursing facilities participating in Medicare (SNFs) and...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Ownership Transparency: The New Normal in Healthcare?

On November 17, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS") Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ("CMS") published a final rule (the "Final Rule") requiring Medicare skilled nursing facilities...more

Bricker Graydon LLP

A Long-Awaited Change: OIG Updates its Compliance Program Guidances

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From 1998-2008, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) published compliance program guidelines for various industries in the Federal Register....more

Goodwin

Additional Disclosure Required: CMS Implements Substantial Changes to Reporting Skilled Nursing Facility Ownership Information

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On November 15, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a Final Rule that will require skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) to disclose an expanded array of ownership, managerial, and control information...more

Polsinelli

Ownership Transparency Continues for Skilled Nursing Facilities with Additional Required Disclosures

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On November 15, 2023, CMS finalized a proposed rule that will require Skilled Nursing Facilities (“SNFs”) to disclose the identity of an expanded array of ownership and control interests in SNFs beyond the information that is...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

CMS Issues a Final Rule Requiring Nursing Facilities and Other Providers and Suppliers to Disclose Additional Ownership...

On November 17, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) will publish a final rule requiring Medicare skilled nursing facilities (“SNFs”) and Medicaid nursing...more

Troutman Pepper

Another Critical Item for Long-Term Care Facilities to Add to Their To-Do List — New Staffing Mandates

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On September 1, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Minimum Staffing Standards for Long-Term Care (LTC) Facilities and Medicaid Institutional Payment Transparency Reporting proposed rule. This...more

Amundsen Davis LLC

Nursing Homes May Face First-Ever Federal Staffing Mandate

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On September 1st the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a proposed rule that would require nursing homes that participate in Medicare and Medicaid to comply with a first-ever federal staffing mandate. If...more

Alston & Bird

Health Care Week In Review: HHS Selects the First 10 Drugs for Medicare Drug Price Negotiation

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Below is Alston & Bird’s Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in health care regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional committee action; reports, studies,...more

Alston & Bird

Health Care Week In Review: CMS Releases SNF and IPPS Final Rules

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Below is Alston & Bird’s Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in health care regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional committee action; reports, studies,...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Adding some spice to your compliance program

Every quarter, each acute care hospital that is paid under the Inpatient Prospective Payment System has access to an Excel workbook that contains valuable information about your hospital’s compliance with myriad Medicare...more

Maynard Nexsen

CMS Announces New “SNF 5-Claim Probe & Educate Review”

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On June 8, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a new nationwide audit of all skilled nursing facilities (SNF) and Hospital swing bed providers that submit claims for reimbursement to Medicare...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Proposed Rule Season

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

McDermott Will & Emery

VBC Symposium 2023 | Innovations in Value-Based Care for Complex Populations

During this session, Partner Jeremy Earl moderated a panel that discussed how value-based care models are delivering care to individuals with complex conditions and those with significant healthcare and social needs. The...more

Benesch

CMS Releases Ownership Information for Hospices and Home Health

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On Thursday, April 20, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released ownership data for all Medicare-certified hospice and home health agencies on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)...more

Stevens & Lee

FY 2024 Proposed Medicare Reimbursement Changes for Certain Nursing and Inpatient Facilities

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On April 3-4, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a number of proposed rules that would materially impact reimbursement rates for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), inpatient psychiatric facilities (IPFs)...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

HHS OIG to Review CMS Citations

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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

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

CMS Issues Proposed Rule Requiring Nursing Homes to Disclose Additional Ownership Information, Including Ties to Private Equity...

On February 15, 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a proposed rule that would require nursing homes enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid to disclose new information about their ownership and...more

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