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
On Thursday, January 13, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States issued its opinions in each of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) vaccination...more
As we have previously written, the landscape for employers in the time of COVID-19, particularly healthcare employers and long term care facilities, is ever-changing and quickly moving. In the last year, healthcare employers...more
An alarm bell has sounded for healthcare facilities as the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issues two Willful COVID-19 Citations with nearly $300,000 in proposed penalties. On August 4th, OSHA...more
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), on June 10, 2021, released a long-anticipated Emergency Temporary Standard (“ETS”) to protect workers that provide healthcare and healthcare support services from...more
On June 10, 2021 OSHA issued its COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) for the health care industry, along with general guidance for all other employers, which we already touched on in a previous post. However, there...more
Long-term care facilities have been hit hard by COVID-19. As we approach the one-year anniversary of this national emergency, many facilities have grown accustomed to the additional reporting and scrutiny. However, this...more
OSHA is pursuing a new avenue to identify potential employer violations related to COVID-19 employee deaths at long-term care facilities: employers’ CMS data. In May 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services...more
OSHA has issued guidance on personal protective equipment (“PPE”) and respiratory protection use in nursing home and long term care facilities (collectively “LTCFs”) to protect against COVID-19. In its recently issued...more
Long-Term Care Facilities (LTCFs) have not heard much from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in terms of specific industry guidance since the middle of May when the agency released a one-page document...more
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) recently released new guidance regarding face coverings and respiratory protection for the long-term care industry during the COVID-19 public health emergency. This...more
The United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) issued on November 6th a guidance document titled: Common COVID-19 Citations: Helping Employers Better Protect Workers and Comply with OSHA...more
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued a respiratory protection guidance for nursing homes, assisted living, and other long-term care facilities (LTCF) during the COVID-19 pandemic. This guidance...more
During the first U.S. surge in COVID-19 infections, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and other long-term residential care facilities experienced an especially high degree of workplace transmission of the virus and...more
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has increased pressure on health care facilities, and long term care providers specifically, by issuing COVID-19-related citations and initiating COVID-19-related...more
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has now issued its second set of coronavirus-related citations, this time against an Ohio health-care company. OSHA inspected three of the...more
Recent enforcement activity by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) underscores the risks posed by the deployment of N95 and other respirators by long-term care providers, including nursing homes and...more
The COVID-19 pandemic has thrust many long-term care providers, including nursing home, assisted living, and other health care providers, into uncharted waters, forcing them to secure adequate supplies of personal protective...more
This ninth edition of Unprecedented, our weekly update on COVID-19-related litigation, continues to be dominated by shutdown challenges and workplace injury and wrongful death claims. But as governments discuss contact...more
On May 14, 2020, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a one-page guidance sheet titled “COVID-19 Guidance for Nursing Home and Long-Term Care Facility Workers.” The guidance lists several tips that...more
Update on High-Risk Workers and Developments at OSHA & CDC - In our alert series, Plan Now for Bringing Back Your Workforce, we’ve explored the importance of creating an OSHA-compliant Infectious Disease Preparedness and...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: OSHA issues specific guidance related to COVID-19 policies, administrative controls, engineering controls, personal protective equipment, and face masks....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
While our nation and the world are experiencing a health crisis of unprecedented proportions, the attorneys at Ulmer want to provide you with current information as it relates to long-term care facilities, your patients,...more
The Citation of Immediate Jeopardy Deficiencies Against Nursing Facilities: Unforeseen Consequences - There are no words more feared by a skilled nursing facility Administrator during an annual recertification survey or...more
In the California Legislature, bills first are referred to the appropriate policy committee for hearing. Labor bills are referred to the Labor Committee, crime bills are referred to the Public Safety Committee, health bills...more