Antitrust Considerations in Long-Term Care — Assisted Living and the Law Podcast
Hospice Insights Podcast: What’s the Latest on UPICs? Highlights from Recent Audit Activity, Part I
AGG Talks: Healthcare Insights Podcast - Episode 6: Charting the Future of Nursing Home Staffing
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?
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 197: The Next Generation of Senior Living with Tate Stewart and Alan Moise of Thrive Senior Living
Hospice Insights Podcast - Deal Breakers: Identifying Key Issues Early in Member Substitutions
Hospice and Home Health Survey Perspectives: A Conversation with Kim Skehan, VP of Accreditation at CHAP
Year in Review: Key Regulatory Updates in 2023
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
Williams Mullen's Strategies for Senior Care: The Upside of Compliance Plans for Senior Care Facilities
This Bandwagon Has a Broken Wheel: OIG Joins the Inconsistent Approach to Hospice GIP Claims
The Gift That Keeps On Giving: TPE Insights and Strategies
Behind the Curtain: Enhanced Provider Enrollment Oversight
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
Medicaid Minute: Did Medicaid Send You a Notice Saying Your Care Cost May Be Increasing?
Long-Term Care Investigations: Critical Steps To Mitigate Risk and Protect Your Residents, Staff and Reputation
The Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published a Final Rule regarding the former COVID-19 vaccine requirements. The Final Rule withdraws the COVID-19 health care staff...more
Key provisions that provided flexibility to long-term care providers and helped alleviate administrative burdens will expire May 11, 2023. Long-term care facilities (LTCs), skilled nursing facilities (SNF), and nursing...more
The world of healthcare has always been ever-changing. Coupled with the COVID-19 pandemic, it can be difficult for providers to stay abreast of the numerous regulatory changes. Recently, the Rhode Island Department of Health...more
F880: Infection Prevention and Control - The regulation governing the F880 tag requires that facilities develop and implement ongoing infection control and prevention programs and written policies and procedures for infection...more
Certain COVID-19 emergency declaration blanket waivers are being phased out by the federal government, and health care providers should take steps to determine whether current arrangements are compliant. As background, in...more
On April 7, 2022, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued guidance terminating numerous blanket waivers applicable to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), inpatient hospices, intermediate care facilities for...more
In light of surging COVID-19 cases occasioned by the highly transmissible Omicron variant and questions from nursing homes regarding whether to limit visitation, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) earlier...more
On November 5, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued an Interim Final Rule (IFR) with Comment Period, 86 Fed. Reg. 61555 (Nov. 5, 2021), requiring mandatory COVID-19 vaccination of staff of many...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced that it will issue emergency regulations expanding its requirement for nursing home staff to be vaccinated to include workers at Medicare and Medicaid-certified...more
On September 9, 2021, President Biden announced a six-pronged, comprehensive plan to combat COVID-19 and its variants. One prong of that plan includes expanding vaccination requirements for Medicare and Medicaid-certified...more
President Biden is putting nursing homes on notice that all of their employees will need to be vaccinated against COVID-19, if the homes intend to continue participating in Medicare or Medicaid. The administration has...more
In Washington: A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended the use of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for youth who are 12 to 15 years old. The recommendation came hours after the Advisory Committee on...more
Key Points - Congress and government watchdogs have conducted considerable work to date investigating the COVID-19 response pertaining to nursing homes. - Stakeholders should look to previously introduced...more
This resource guide is a tool to help state officials and other stakeholders understand how temporary federal and state Medicaid flexibilities and emergency federal funding streams are being deployed during the COVID-19...more
In a January 4, 2021 revision to a June 1, 2020 Quality, Safety and Oversight memorandum, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) revised the criteria for focused infection control (FIC) surveys in nursing...more
As 2020, thankfully, comes to a close, the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (OIG) has released the first of several reports on the impact of COVID-19 on nursing homes and the effectiveness...more
As part of a broader Trump administration announcement made on August 25, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued sweeping oversight changes in the form of an Interim Final Rule with Comment Period...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
As of July 12, there have been 142,231 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 38,518 deaths in nursing homes. For this reason, CMS recently called nursing homes “ground zero for COVID-19” and announced enhanced survey activities and...more
On June 1st, CMS issued a press release outlining its efforts to enhance enforcement actions against nursing homes and skilled nursing facilities (“LTC facilities”) with violations of infection control practices. CMS’s...more
On June 1, 2020 CMS published QSO-20-31-All. It is effective immediately and provides in part as follows: (1) States will need to perform focused infection control surveys (FICS) of 100% of the certified nursing homes in...more
This resource guide is a tool to help state officials and other stakeholders understand how temporary federal and state Medicaid flexibilities are being deployed during COVID 19 to help ensure access to LTSS.2 Populations who...more
Nursing homes and other post-acute healthcare providers have long been the focus of both government investigations and private plaintiffs focusing on quality of care, staffing and billing issues. Now that such facilities have...more
With the nation’s most vulnerable population residing in nursing homes and long-term care facilities, OSHA on May 14, 2020, finally issued much-needed guidance for this industry. These facilities, deemed “ground zero” by...more
Long term care facilities beware: The COVID-19 lawsuits and investigations are coming. Lawyers are suing to obtain the names of all facilities that have had COVID-19 positive staff and residents and they already are drafting...more