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Our Nursing Home Industry – A National Scandal

HIT Consultant

It has led me to found Tapestry Health, a multispecialty medical practice that focuses on providing medical infrastructure in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), as well as Project Patient Care, a patient advocacy organization based in Chicago, Illinois. The COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated these challenges.

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For Your Information: Government Response to Long COVID

Total Medical Compliance Resources

FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Makes Progress in the Whole-of-Government Response to Long COVID U.S. Today, HHS is releasing this Fact Sheet outlining the progress made in the last year in responding to Long COVID and actions moving forward. AHRQ intends to make up to $9 million in awards by September 2023.

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Home Health PPS Final Rule for CY 2024: CMS Steps Back from the Brink

Hall Render

On November 1, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) posted a pre-publication copy of the Calendar Year (“CY”) 2024 Home Health Prospective Payment System Rate Update Final Rule (“2024 Final Rule”), which has since been filed in the Federal Register. CMS proposed to change this to six months of inactivity.

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Health Provider News – November 18, 2022

Hall Render

will keep Covid public health emergency in place at least until mid January. Alabama Medicaid Agency expands covered visits for cancer patients after cancer center push. ‘Swarm’ of variants is driving up California COVID cases. DC hospital tracks ‘rapidly increasing numbers’ of flu amid RSV, COVID-19 cases.

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

Dunleavy adds $9M to budget to address food stamp, Medicaid backlog New study provides snapshot of increase in maternal deaths in Alaska Mental Health Trust Grants $1.6M Dunleavy adds $9M to budget to address food stamp, Medicaid backlog New study provides snapshot of increase in maternal deaths in Alaska Mental Health Trust Grants $1.6M

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White House looks to CMMI to test new ways to lower drug prices

C&M Health Law

CMMI has broad statutory authority not only to test, design, and implement health care payment and delivery models for Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) but in certain instances, can implement such models without Congressional action. The Biden administration formally rescinded the MFN in 2021.