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
On April 23, the 113th Tennessee General Assembly passed HB2269/SB2009, Public Chapter No. 985 (New CON Law), which significantly overhauls Tennessee’s certificate of need (CON) program for a second time less than three years...more
Hear directly from the enforcement community - Want to gain insight into properly monitoring, detecting, investigating, and managing violations? Join us virtually at HCCA’s Annual Healthcare Enforcement Compliance...more
The primary educational and networking event for healthcare compliance professionals - As our flagship healthcare compliance conference, HCCA’s Compliance Institute (CI) has been providing educational resources and...more
Episode three of McGuireWoods’ video series “Healthcare Headlines” focuses on trends in False Claims Act investigations across the healthcare industry. Host Amber McGraw Walsh, chair of the firm’s nationally recognized...more
The Compliance Institute is celebrating 25 years! Join us for the Compliance Institute's 25th anniversary, April 19-22, 2021. This year, HCCA is excited to celebrate over two decades of compliance excellence with our...more
We are seeing a wide range of new state laws that impact the prescribing of opioids to hospice patients. Several bills are before the New York State Assembly that, if passed, could affect how prescriptions are written to...more
Although we are seeing a wide range of new state laws that impact the prescribing of opioids to hospice patients, this year’s legislative session in Georgia has not produced any such laws. Because of the nation’s opioid...more
On October 24, 2018, the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act (Pub. L. 115-271, the “Act”) was signed into law. Section 3222 of this sweeping federal opioid legislation amends the Controlled Substances Act to permit...more
The U.S. Senate is continuing to ramp up efforts to address the opioid abuse crisis. As a part of that effort, on April 16, 2018, the Senate introduced S. 2680, the Opioid Crisis Response Act of 2018. The Bill is currently in...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