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Long Term Care Update: As Winter Arrives, CMS Renews its Emphasis on COVID-19 Vaccinations, Bivalent Boosters and Timely Therapeutic Treatments

Healthcare Law Blog

Addressing Declines in COVID-19 Vaccination Rates and COVID-19 Treatment. A pre-Thanksgiving analysis of this data revealed that just 45% of SNF residents and 23% of SNF staff were up-to-date with COVID-19 vaccines and boosters.

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Highlights from the HHS-OIG 2023 Spring Semiannual Report

Provider Trust

OIG also remains engaged with federal partners like the Department of Justice (DOJ) to identify and prosecute individuals who exploit the COVID-19 response for their own gain. During this reporting period, an individual was sentenced to three years of probation for fabricating false COVID-19 vaccine records.

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Skilled Nursing Update: CMS Hands Surveyors Details on How to Review the Staff Vaccine Requirement

Hall Render

Nursing homes face possible citations, civil monetary penalties, denial of payments and—as a final measure—termination of participation from the Medicare and Medicaid programs by the CMS as they embark on complying with the new CMS COVID-19 vaccine requirements for their staff. Staff Interviews.

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Carceral Health Care Is Designed to Fail

Bill of Health

And we know that our prisons, jails, and detention centers employ doctors with suspended and limited licenses as the exclusive source for health care for incarcerated people. CMS issues rules and guidance on licensing requirements, medical facility operations, and data reporting, among a wealth of other topics.

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Compliance Implications for the End of the Federal Public Health Emergency (PHE)

MedTrainer

This article will focus on the federal changes, but make sure to check with all states where your providers are licensed to stay up-to-date. Nursing homes must still provide annual emergency preparedness training. To make things even more complicated, there are other waivers that states can choose to extend.

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Health Provider News – April 22, 2022

Hall Render

GAO investigating private equity ownership of nursing homes. This nursing home chain reported the highest COVID death rate. Bill banning COVID-19 vaccine mandates heads to Ducey’s desk. California to delay COVID-19 vaccine mandate for students. Then it deleted deaths.

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Health Provider News – May 20, 2022

Hall Render

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. How does Arizona solve its nursing shortage? CALIFORNIA. Christus St.