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
AGG Talks: Home Health & Hospice - Reimbursement Audits and Appeals
How Should We Celebrate Elder Law Month?
Long-Term Care Investigations: Critical Steps To Mitigate Risk and Protect Your Residents, Staff and Reputation
K&L Gates Triage: Emergency Preparedness and Response in Long Term Care - Part III
K&L Gates Triage: Emergency Preparedness and Response in Long Term Care - Part II
K&L Gates Triage: Emergency Preparedness and Response in Long Term Care
K&L Gates Triage: Reading the Fine Print: A Closer Look at the Proposed Regulation over Arbitration Clauses in Long-Term Care Resident Agreements
Baker Donelson secured a win before the Tennessee Supreme Court when, on February 16, 2024, the Court issued a ruling supporting health care providers and those who seek to secure health care for a loved one. In Williams v....more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a revised CMS State Operations Manual (SOM) Appendix PP on June 29, 2022, that became effective on October 24, 2022. The updates are designed to enhance nursing home...more
The dispute involved a long-term health care provider and an assisted living services provider that was based in the same building. The union represented certain housekeeping employees at the location. The long-term health...more
On July 18, 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued its revised rules governing the use of pre-dispute arbitration agreements in long-term care facilities. The revised rules, effective beginning...more
The uncertainty surrounding the use of arbitration agreements in nursing homes has finally ended—at least for now. On July 16, 2019, CMS released its long-awaited final rule, which updates the requirements nursing homes must...more
This episode discusses CMS’ policy shift regarding binding pre-arbitration dispute clauses in long-term care resident agreements over the course of the past year. CMS’ current proposal reverses the ban on binding pre-dispute...more
Due to the November 7, 2016, Mississippi district court order granting an injunction against the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) ban on pre-dispute arbitration agreements in long-term care, nursing homes can...more
In September, CMS announced a final rule that bans pre-dispute binding arbitration agreements related to care received in long-term care facilities. Among other things, the rule preserves the right of patients and their...more
Earlier this week, a federal court enjoined the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) from enforcing a rule, promulgated on September 28, 2016, which barred pre-dispute arbitration agreements between...more
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency within the U.S. Health and Human Services Department, recently issued a final rule prohibiting nursing homes and other long-term care facilities from utilizing...more
In a heavily anticipated ruling with wide-ranging effects across the long-term care industry, a federal court in Mississippi on Monday blocked CMS’s ban on new pre-dispute arbitration agreements between residents and nursing...more
In the earlier publication CMS Final Rule Prohibits Pre-Dispute Arbitration Agreements at Long Term Care Facilities, we noted that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency within the Health and Human...more
Following CMS publishing the biggest overhaul to federal long-term care regulations in 25 years, affected facilities must take steps to ensure they are prepared for the pending changes. On Oct. 4, CMS published the...more
Deadlines are looming to come into compliance with sweeping changes to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) requirements for long-term care facilities (LTC) participating in Medicare and Medicaid. The CMS final...more
Our Health & LTC group is integrating the new LTC final regulations for clients and will begin advising of changes required in the coming weeks before Phase I requirements become effective on November 28, 2017. Given the...more
On October 4, 2016, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published its final “Reform of Requirements for Long-Term Care Facilities” rule in the Federal Register, marking the first time since 1991 that the...more
On Oct. 4, CMS published the biggest overhaul to federal long-term care regulations since 1991. The lengthy Final Rule reforms the requirements for long-term care facilities participating in Medicare and Medicaid. CMS...more
On September 28, 2016, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued its long-awaited final rule that, among other things, prohibits skilled nursing facilities (“SNFs”) and nursing facilities (“NFs”)...more
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency within the U.S. Health and Human Services Department, has issued a final rule that includes prohibiting nursing homes and other long-term care facilities from...more
On July 16, 2015, the Federal Register published Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed rule to reform the requirements for Long Term Care Facilities participating in Medicare and Medicaid. CMS will be...more
Long term care providers beware, class action suits are coming. Due to allegations of chronic understaffing, long term care providers are beginning to face massive class action lawsuits nationwide. The trend began in 2010,...more
In this issue: - What’s In A Word? N.C. Court of Appeals Invalidates Nursing Home Arbitration Clause Based on Language of the Agreement - “The Climb” — NC Activities Directors Win National Award for Their Work...more