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Nursing Home Health System Agrees to Pay $1.75 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations

Med-Net Compliance

A nursing home health system has agreed to pay the United States $1.75 A nursing home health system has agreed to pay the United States $1.75 The company is a not-for-profit corporation located in Florida that oversees healthcare facilities on its campus, including a nursing home and an assisted living facility.

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Carceral Health Care Is Designed to Fail

Bill of Health

Compare, for example, federal treatment of nursing homes with prisons. Both nursing homes and prisons are congregate living spaces housing people at higher risk for serious complications from COVID-19. None of these rules apply to state and local carceral spaces, which are outside of CMS’ regulatory orbit.

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OIG Shines a Spotlight on Nursing Homes, Opioid Misuse, and Health Equity in the FY2022 Semiannual Report

Healthcare Law Blog

Statistic FY 2021 (10/1/2020 – 9/30/2021) FY 2022 (10/1/2021 – 9/30/2022) Audit Reports Issued 162 114 Evaluations Issued 46 43 Expected Audit Recoveries $787.29 4] See MorseLife Nursing Home Health System Agrees to Pay $1.75 million $1.19 billion Questioned Costs $1.17 billion $2.17 billion Potential Savings $1.24 billion $2.73

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Nursing Home Update: CMS Unwinds Vaccine Mandate and More Regulations as Public Health Emergency End Nears

Hall Render

For this alert, “nursing homes” refers to skilled nursing facilities (often known as “SNFs”). COVID Regulations Impacted CMS issued several interim final rules during the PHE. COVID Testing Requirements. In 2020, CMS revised the nursing home infection control regulations at 42 CFR § 483.80

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The Pandemic Prison

Bill of Health

None felt the urgency as much as incarcerated and detained people, who responded to the chaos and uncertainty in the spring of 2020 with scores of protests and escape attempts. In the spring of 2020, COVID-19 laid bare that life in the United States was both precarious and unsustainable.

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Skilled Nursing Update: CMS Recasts Skilled Nursing Visitation Action Items or Post-PHE Visits 

Hall Render

On May 8, 2023, CMS updated and revised several questions and answers to provide clarifications to the memorandum that the Quality, Safety & Oversight Group at CMS originally issued on September 17, 2020, titled “Nursing Home Visitation – COVID-19” (“CMS Visitation Memo”), which announced updated visitation standards for nursing homes.

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

nursing home advocate: industry in ‘death spiral’ from lack of health care providers, low pay Georgia medical center named one of the ‘most beautiful hospitals in the U.S.’ grant to train 140 ‘complex care’ nurses Health Foundation of Central Mass. Maryland hospitals have ways to help them stop.