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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”). In 2020, CMS revised the nursing home infection control regulations at 42 CFR § 483.80 Additionally, this information is now publicly available on CMS’s COVID Nursing Home Data Website.

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OIG Audit Finds Certain Nursing Homes May Not Have Complied with Federal Requirements

Med-Net Compliance

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) conducted an audit and found that selected nursing homes may not have complied with federal requirements for infection prevention and control and emergency preparedness. Specifically, 28 of 39 nursing homes they audited had possible deficiencies.

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OIG Finds Certain Nursing Homes May Not Have Complied with Federal Requirements

Med-Net Compliance

They identified that 6,622 nursing homes had been cited for infection prevention and control program deficiencies as of February 26, 2020, and Medicare.gov indicated that 24 nursing homes were part of a nursing home chain. Read the full report here: [link].

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Taking stock of the sudden evolution of telemedicine

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telehealth providers saw a rapid rise in the need for remote services with the initial spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020. Healthcare providers needed to find an immediate solution to care for their patients while keeping them home and maintaining the safety of the community.

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

Hall Render

As skilled nursing facilities work and provide health care services after the May 11, 2023, end of the Public Health Emergency, questions and concerns about visitation at these facilities will likely continue to arise.

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Carceral Health Care Is Designed to Fail

Bill of Health

patchwork ” system of incarceration, ultimately fall far short of the extensive regulatory framework governing Medicare/Medicaid, which shapes health care for over 83 million people in the U.S. health law and policy is the exclusion of people in custody in prisons, jails, and detention centers from Medicaid.

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Why Family Caregivers Need Help from the Healthcare Establishment

HIT Consultant

It doesn’t take you to a health plan website. It doesn’t even take you to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) website. Today, nearly 48 million people provided unpaid care for adults in 2020, up 16.6% Try Googling the word “caregiving.” Google doesn’t take you to a hospital website.