Hospice Insights Podcast: What’s the Latest on UPICs? Highlights from Recent Audit Activity, Part I
Hospice Insights Podcast - Stories of Successful Hospice Leadership: The CEO and Chief Medical Officer Relationship
Hospice Insights Podcast - A Rise in Medicare Deactivations: Tips for Avoiding This Financial Pain
AGG Talks: Home Health & Hospice Podcast - Episode 5: Understanding Palliative Care: Strategies for Compliance and Reimbursement
Hospice Insights: Check the Mail: Are You Getting a 4% Rate Cut?
Hospice Labor and Employment Trends - Get Up to Speed Fast: What You Need to Know About the New Rules Involving Non-Competes and Exempt Employees
AGG Talks: Home Health & Hospice - Lessons Learned From ALJ Hospice Audit Appeals
Hospice Insights Podcast - A Refresh: What’s New in the New OIG General Compliance Program Guidance
Hospice Insights Podcast - Deal Breakers: Identifying Key Issues Early in Member Substitutions
A Command Performant(s): RAC Audits on the Rise
The TPE Carousel. . . Around and Around We Go
A Fond Farewell: Musings on the End of the Medicare Advantage Hospice Carve-In Demonstration
OMG. . .The OIG is at it Again
How One Hospice Owner Got Convicted of Healthcare Fraud and How You Can Avoid That Fate
Hospice and Home Health Survey Perspectives: A Conversation with Kim Skehan, VP of Accreditation at CHAP
Year in Review: Key Regulatory Updates in 2023
An Alternative to Consolidations: Key Considerations for Management Services Organizations
Stories of Successful Hospice Leadership: The CEO and Compliance Officer Relationship
A Very “Special” Episode: Amid Controversy, CMS Launches the Hospice Special Focus Program
Grace from CMS: Unexpected Good News on HIS and CAHPS Appeals
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
I. Certificate of Need Program - A. Contested Case - AL2023-021, Affinity Hospital, LLC d/b/a Grandview Medical Center, Hoover, AL: Proposes to establish a Freestanding Emergency Department (FED) in the city of Hoover,...more
I. Certificate of Need Program A. A. AL2023-013, Birmingham Operations, LLC d/b/a Harmony at Birmingham, Trussville, AL: Proposes to construct and operate a thirty-two (32) bed Specialty Care Assisted Living Facility...more
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Division of Health Service Regulation (DHSR) has published the draft 2024 State Medical Facilities Plan (SMFP), which was developed by the State Health Coordinating...more
I. Certificate of Need Program - A. Contested Case: AL2022-022, St. Vincent’s Birmingham, Pelham, AL: Proposes to develop a multi-specialty building to include a freestanding emergency department (FED), imaging center,...more
On July 27, 2022, CMS issued final rules for FY 2023 in its yearly update to Medicare payment policies and rates under the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities (IRFs) prospective payment system (PPS) and the Inpatient...more
The Biden administration recently released three final rules that provide for an aggregate $1.19 billion increase in Medicare payments in fiscal year 2023 for hospices, rehabilitation facilities, and psychiatric facilities. ...more
I. Certificate of Need Program - A. AAL2021-052, The Piedmont Health Care Authority d/b/a Dugger Mountain Specialty Care Facility, Piedmont, AL: Proposes to add twenty-three (23) Specialty Care Assisted Living Facility...more
On November 2, 2021, CMS put on display its final rule that, among other things, updates the home health and home infusion therapy services payment rates for calendar year (CY) 2022; makes significant changes to the provider...more
I. Certificate of Need Program - A. AL2021-028, Renal Treatment Centers - Southeast, LP d/b/a Crown Dialysis, Birmingham, AL: Proposes to expand its existing End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) facility by adding four (4) new...more
I. Certificate of Need Program - A. AL2021-016, United Vascular of Huntsville, LLC, Huntsville, AL: Proposes to establish a two-operating-room ASC specializing in vascular access and peripheral vascular procedures....more
I. Certificate of Need Program - A. A.AL2021-011, DVA Healthcare Renal Care, Inc. d/b/a Northport Dialysis, Northport, AL: Proposes the relocation and expansion of its existing state-of-the-art ESRD facility by adding ten...more
Below is Alston & Bird’s Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in healthcare regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional committee action; reports, studies, and...more
Last week CMS issued a new round of regulatory waivers and rule changes in response to the COVID-19 public health emergency, including its Interim Final Rule with comment period, CMS-5531-IFC. The key changes relax certain...more
As part of sweeping exemptions aimed at facilitating all levels of healthcare during the coronavirus public health emergency, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has been issuing waivers for a wide range of...more
Kindred Healthcare. On July 2, 2018, Humana Inc. and private equity firms TPG Capital (TPG), and Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (Welsh) (collectively referred to as the Consortium) issued a press release announcing the...more
On April 24 and 27, 2018, CMS launched its annual gaggle of proposed regulations – each with the theme of "Patients over Paperwork" – with the stated goal of "advanc[ing] the agency's priority of creating a patient-driven...more
I. February and April 2017—Tennessee Certificate of Need Meetings - The agency approved the following applications during the February and April meetings. A. Consent Agenda 1. Walgreens Infusion and...more
I. Certificate of Need Program - A. AL2016-023, RehabCare Group East, Inc., Birmingham, AL: Proposes to relocate the existing multi-service outpatient rehab center from 100 Shadow Wood Park, Ste. B, Birmingham, Shelby...more
On July 29, 2016, CMS released three separate final rules updating the fiscal year 2017 payment rates for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), hospices and inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs). Payments will increase...more
In late May, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) issued comment letters in response to multiple CMS payment proposals in which MedPAC encouraged refinements to the hospital star rating system to emphasize...more
I. REGULATIONS, NOTICES, & GUIDANCE - On April 21, 2016, CMS issued a proposed rule entitled, “Medicare Program: FY 2017 Hospice Wage Index and Payment Rate Update and Hospice Quality Reporting Requirements.” This...more
CMS Issues SNF Final Payment Rule for FY 2016 – On July 30, 2015, CMS released the final Medicare FY 2016 payment rule for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). The final rule will result in an estimated increase of $430 million...more
This Week: House Ways & Means Committee Holds Markup; Makes Significant Legislative Changes to Health Care Bills... Senate Finance Committee Holds Markup on Medicare Appeals Process Bill... CMS Issues Final Rule on...more
This Week: House E&C 21st Century Cures Bill Passes Unanimously Out of Committee... House Votes to Codify Permanent R&D Tax Credit... CMS Released Proposed Rule Concerning Medicaid and CHIP Plans....more