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CMS unveils managed care rule, refutes nursing home rule complaints

Fierce Healthcare

Medicaid managed care plans and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) will be subject to new wait time standards and quality ratings requirements, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid S | CMS defended implementing stronger rules over nursing home staffing as well as explained its thoughts behind Medicaid access and managed care rules.

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Buyer Beware: CMS Finalizes Ownership Disclosure Requirements for Medicare Skilled Nursing Facilities and Medicaid Nursing Facilities

Hall Render

For NFs, the data would be reported via means prescribed by the applicable state Medicaid agency. The post Buyer Beware: CMS Finalizes Ownership Disclosure Requirements for Medicare Skilled Nursing Facilities and Medicaid Nursing Facilities appeared first on Law Firm | Health Care Law Firm in the USA | Hall Render.

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CMS Proposes Minimum Staffing Requirements and Enhanced Facility Assessments for Nursing Homes

C&M Health Law

Department of Health and Human Services, through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued a much anticipated and contested proposed rule that seeks to establish minimum staffing level requirements for nursing homes. hours of nursing staff per resident per day, or 3.0 HPRD from nurse aids (NAs). [2]

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CMS finalizes rule requiring greater transparency for nursing home ownership

Fierce Healthcare

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has finalized a rule that will require more transparency into nursing home ownership. | The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has finalized a rule that will require more transparency into nursing home ownership.

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New York Optician Convicted of Medicaid Fraud for Nursing Home Residents

Healthcare Compliance Blog

A New York optician has pled guilty to grand larceny for submitting false claims for optician services that he alleged were for specific nursing home residents, but which were never provided. Many of the residents for whom the optician submitted claims were deceased, and he never visited the nursing homes on the dates of the those claims.

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How Can Nursing Homes’ Data Problem Be Solved?

HIT Consultant

Joel Landau, founder and chairman of The Allure Group Nursing homes have embraced technology, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, to help seniors, staff, and clinicians better communicate with one another and for residents to stay in touch with loved ones. Nursing homes are evolving. percent of U.S.

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2024 Brings Expansion to Medicaid in New York State

Healthcare Law Blog

CMS approved $500 million in infrastructure spending for NYS to establish social care networks (“ SCNs ”) to provide HRSN screening and referral services to Medicaid beneficiaries that are targeted populations for HRSN services. Medicaid Hospital Global Budget Initiative CMS authorized up to $2.2