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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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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 million $1.19 billion Questioned Costs $1.17 billion $2.17 billion Potential Savings $1.24 billion $279.09 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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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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Carceral Health Care Is Designed to Fail

Bill of Health

COVID-19 is not the first pandemic within prisons. Like these earlier carceral pandemics, the over 620,000 COVID-19 infections and 3,100 related deaths among incarcerated individuals to date simply expose how U.S. Compare, for example, federal treatment of nursing homes with prisons. By Andrea C.

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Health Provider News – May 20, 2022

Hall Render

COVID-19 public health emergency set to be extended. Covid-19 remains a public health emergency in US, administration says. HHS Announces $15M in Funding For Behavioral Healthcare In Nursing Homes. State Actions to Address Nursing Home Staffing During COVID-19. CALIFORNIA.

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The Pandemic Prison

Bill of Health

The scale of COVID-19 in jails, prisons, and detention centers was expected. 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. Yet biosecurity has not resulted in an expansion of prison health care.

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