Healthcare IT Today
JULY 30, 2023
One culprit is staffing in post-acute care – 87% of nursing homes report moderate to high staffing shortages. consumers rate medical billing as challenging to understand , according to a recent survey from HealthLock. Nearly two-thirds (63%) of U.S.
HIPAA Journal
APRIL 30, 2025
Examples of HIPAA business associates include medical billing service providers, software providers (including Managed Service Providers), and accreditation organizations with access to PHI. Examples could include a landscape gardener who recognizes a patient in the garden of a nursing home. Is access to PHI transient?
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Hall Render
OCTOBER 6, 2023
The Biden administration announced a new initiative that would prohibit unpaid medical bills from affecting American’s credit scores. According to a new report , CMS’s minimum staffing proposal for nursing homes would require nursing home operators to hire 102,000 additional nurses at a cost of $6.8B.
Med Law Blog
MAY 1, 2023
We saw that issue up close last year as the committee considered the role of PE firms in the increase of patients receiving surprise medical bills.” Howell, Constantine Yannelis and Abhinav Gupta positing that their research shows that “PE ownership increases short term mortality of Medicare patients by 10%, in nursing homes”.
Kaiser Health News
MARCH 3, 2022
President Joe Biden’s top Medicare official suggested Wednesday that forthcoming rules to bolster nursing home staffing won’t be issued under a mechanism, known as interim final rules, that would allow regulations to take effect more or less immediately. 30, amounting to at least 23% of all U.S.
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. Expanded screening testing of asymptomatic HCP without known exposures is required in nursing homes and could be considered in other settings.
Hall Render
JULY 26, 2024
million Medicaid grant will expand mental health services in Kansas schools New staffing mandate has some Kansas nursing homes concerned about sustainability New study ranks Missouri, Kansas among worst states for women’s health care Freeman Health System announces plan to open SEK hospital UKHS St.
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