Hall Render

MAY 2, 2023

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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 6, 2024

billion in annual operating revenue, Memorial Healthcare System is one of the largest public health systems in the U.S. With the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Memorial launched telehealth for all its primary care and specialty centers, and today conducts about 100,000 virtual visits per year.

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YouCompli

AUGUST 2, 2022

This month’s article looks at COVID enforcements.?? ?. The Federal government spent unprecedented trillions of dollars throughout the COVID public health emergency (PHE). Remember when immunizations for COVID first became available? Those enforcement efforts have not slowed down. Let’s look at a few.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 6, 2022

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 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) as they embark on complying with the new CMS COVID-19 vaccine requirements for their staff.

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MedTrainer

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Keys to managing point-of-care testing complianceIn an effort to combat the spread of the virus and to help nursing homes protect the health and safety of their residents, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is distributing SARS-CoV-2 antigen diagnostic tests to more than 14,000 facilities.

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MedTrainer

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In an effort to combat the spread of the virus and to help nursing homes protect the health and safety of their residents, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is distributing SARS-CoV-2 antigen diagnostic tests to more than 14,000 facilities. HHS argued antigen testing is the best option available.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 13, 2023

Consolidating and coordinating information between providers, payers and public health departments is particularly tough, not only because there are so many providers, but because of the variability between data platforms and systems. In recent years, some states leveraged the power of HIEs to identify COVID-19 hotspots in communities.

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Provider Trust

JANUARY 25, 2024

In addition, the COVID-19 public health emergency triggered shifts in Medicaid and CHIP eligibility, which could impact millions of people. Reporting abuse cases can be challenging, particularly in non-facility settings like home-based services or group residences.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 25, 2020

Social distancing is a key factor in reducing the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, and tele-visits can be a safe and secure means for providers to deliver certain types of care for their patients. The area continues to face an increase in severe COVID-19 cases that require hospitalization – overwhelming many hospitals.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

With rising case numbers in across the DACH (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) region and the rest of Europe, a fully vaccinated status might become compulsory for the use of the EU Digital COVID Certificate (EUDCC) soon – at least in some countries. Thus, negative test results or the recovery status would no longer be accepted.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Although politicians and pundits warned that businesses would drown in a “ tidal wave ” of lawsuits seeking to hold them liable for COVID-19 infections, plaintiffs face significant barriers to recovery. At the time of the lunch, both were COVID-19 positive. However, B knew she was COVID-19 positive.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Department of Health and Human Services announced this week that it was making almost $48 million available in American Rescue Plan funding for public health capacity in rural and tribal communities, through the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Federal Office of Rural Health Policy.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

One of the most important lessons from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic needs to be about health surveillance of marginalized health populations — indeed, “who counts depends on who is counted.”. This data gap had serious and sometimes fatal implications for people with IDD during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Med-Net Compliance

AUGUST 4, 2022

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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Health Populi

AUGUST 11, 2020

Welcome back to my ABCovid-19 Journal, which I created/curated in the early weeks of the coronavirus pandemic. This week, I’m sharing all the letters of the alphabet with you which reminded me keywords and themes emerging as we were learning about this dastardly public health threat beginning early in 2020. In the U.S.,

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Bill of Health

MARCH 16, 2022

Recall that the first COVID-19 outbreak in the U.S. spread between nursing homes. These facilities, like most nursing homes, are for-profit businesses that pad their margins by cutting labor costs. In theory, all this care could be delivered in seniors’ homes and communities.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Then COVID-19 joined the top-10 list of killers in the U.S. and the issue of pandemic preparedness for the next “Disease X” became part of global public health planning. Existing vulnerabilities enable those climate-related risks to more negatively impact health outcomes.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Consider that more seniors are aging at home or in their family members’ homes during the pandemic, especially as COVID-19 deaths in senior living facilities began to climb and facilities tightened visitor restrictions to avoid the spread of infection. since 2015, according to a recent report.

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SQA

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

ANVISA published the RDC 702/2022, which repeals some requirements that were instituted to speed market approval of devices needed to treat patients during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Agency recently published the first list of critical medicines for the management of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 31, 2022

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. COVID-19 Staff Vaccination Matrix.

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MedTrainer

MAY 4, 2023

The end of the federal Public Health Emergency (PHE) will reinstate regulations that have been absent for years… and many healthcare workers have never had to follow. There are plenty of compliance implications for the end of the Public Health Emergency on May 11, 2023 , and an assessment is a great place to start.

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AIHC

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The GCPG standardized the seven Elements of a Successful Compliance Program, which differs slightly from the individual compliance guidance documents (CPGs) directed at various segments of the health care industry, such as hospitals, nursing homes, third-party billers, and durable medical equipment suppliers. Maybe, maybe not.

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AIHC

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The GCPG standardized the seven Elements of a Successful Compliance Program, which differs slightly from the individual compliance guidance documents (CPGs) directed at various segments of the health care industry, such as hospitals, nursing homes, third-party billers, and durable medical equipment suppliers. Maybe, maybe not.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Taffy for the nursing homes, lollipops for the device manufacturers…. Quinney College of Law and an adjunct in the Department of Internal Medicine/Center for Health Ethics, Arts, and Humanities (CHeEtAH). The post Sweet Land of Immunity appeared first on Bill of Health. Most healthy, smiling faces in the crowd got some.

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Provider Trust

AUGUST 9, 2023

This post will delve into the key highlights, focus areas, and accomplishments presented in the semiannual report, shedding light on the OIG’s crucial role in safeguarding the integrity of federal healthcare programs and addressing emerging challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

DOJ filed claims against multiple nursing homes and their management corporation for providing services that the DOJ alleged were grossly below the standard of care. COVID-10 Related Fraud. The federal government provided significant levels of emergency funding throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Standard of Care.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The early 2020s will be studied by historians as a time of global uncertainty when an unknown pathogen caused a public health emergency that brought the world to the brink. So, what other than advances in diagnostic technology, has the experience of Covid given us? Here are just a few examples. Artificial Intelligence .

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C&M Health Law

AUGUST 10, 2022

On July 29, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule that updates Medicare payment policies and rates for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and enacts changes to the SNF Quality Reporting Program and the SNF Value-Based Purchasing Program beginning in FY 2023. SNF Payment Rates and PDPM Adjustments.

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AIHC

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Written By: Compliance Blogger This article addresses COVID testing and consent considerations for: healthcare organizations, nursing homes and business associates or non-healthcare workplaces. SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) continues to be a health risk to be mitigated by health care institutions and at the workplace.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The insights also can help healthcare organizations navigate vaccine distribution, as well as the ebbs and flows of patient volumes due to COVID-19 in the year ahead, according to the new report. “Regulators, for their part, have tried to smooth the way for a pivot to virtual during the public health emergency.

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Provider Trust

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Most healthcare services involve some sort of care by nurses including private practices, primary care clinics, home health, nursing homes, hospices, and more. Read on to learn more about nursing license verification in an ongoing pandemic and public health emergency.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 13, 2025

Heidi Steinecker, Principal Health and Human Services Consultant at Resultant From April to August 2020, 45% of U.S. COVID deaths occurred in long-term care (LTC) facilities, even though LTC residents made up only 0.45% of the population. despite having the greatest number of nursing homes in the entire nation.

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Hall Render

MAY 13, 2022

FDA limits J&J COVID-19 vaccine due to rare blood clot risk. Nurses make exit plans after RaDonda Vaught’s conviction. Travel nurses raced to help during Covid. US faces deficit of 450,000 nurses by 2025. Alabama hospital rationing medical supplies due to COVID disruptions in China.

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Hall Render

MAY 20, 2022

AHA asks HHS to continue the public health emergency until conditions stabilize. Considerations for Social Determinants of Health Screening Design. COVID-19 public health emergency set to be extended. Covid-19 remains a public health emergency in US, administration says.

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Hall Render

JUNE 10, 2022

COVID-19 rising in Alabama, experts believe cases are higher than reported. How drones are innovating Alabama’s health care industry. Alaska’s Covid-19 emergency order to end July 1. Alaska’s COVID-19 data shows 25% rise in cases reported to state since last week. CALIFORNIA.

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Hall Render

MAY 11, 2023

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. and follow accepted national standards, such as CDC recommendations.

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Hall Render

MARCH 28, 2023

On January 30, 2023, the Biden Administration announced the COVID public health emergency (“PHE”) will expire and end on May 11, 2023. CMS has allowed states and nursing homes to suspend these assessments for new residents for thirty days. COVID Testing Requirements. COVID Vaccine Education.

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