New rule requires nursing homes to disclose ownership
Healthcare Dive
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
The final rule comes in response to growing concerns about the role of private equity firm ownership in nursing homes.
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Healthcare Dive
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
The final rule comes in response to growing concerns about the role of private equity firm ownership in nursing homes.
Healthcare Dive
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
Only 40% of nursing homes nationwide complied with reporting requirements between 2016 and 2021, despite nursing homes being among the most dangerous workplaces in America, according to the Health Affairs study.
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Healthcare Dive
SEPTEMBER 1, 2023
The controversial proposal would require nursing homes to have a registered nurse on site 24/7 and have three hours of care per resident per day.
Healthcare Dive
APRIL 4, 2023
Two hospital groups are arguing that federal staffing mandates are a “one-size-fits-all” approach to the labor crisis and that issuing mandates could reduce capacity by forcing nursing homes to shut their doors.
Healthcare Dive
MARCH 7, 2024
In a 26-17 vote, the House Ways and Means Committee passed a bill that would stop the CMS from approving Biden’s controversial proposed staffing minimum policy.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
The now chronic problem of more expensive agency staff and potentially lower quality care in nursing homes needs to be addressed as part of calls for increased oversight of the sector, according to | The now chronic problem of more expensive agency staff and potentially lower quality care in nursing homes needs to be addressed as part of calls for (..)
Modern Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 1, 2023
For the first time, the federal government aims to impose staffing minimums at nursing homes, an estimated 75% of which would need to hire more nurses.
The Health Law Firm Blog
MARCH 25, 2024
Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law and Hartley Brooks, Law Clerk, The Health Law Firm On February 1, 2024, the District Court for the Southern District of Florida announced that Florida nursing home mogul Phillip Esformes had reached a plea deal on pending conspiracy [.] Indest III, J.D.,
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
As the COVID-19 pandemic triggered a massive uptick in telehealth use around the country, hard-hit nursing homes also turned to the tool to try and keep patients safe. The aim, they said, was to examine the consequences of the rapid telehealth rollout in nursing homes. Saved organizational resources. THE LARGER TREND.
The Health Law Firm Blog
MARCH 4, 2024
Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law and Hartley Brooks, Law Clerk, The Health Law Firm On February 1, 2024, the District Court for the Southern District of Florida announced that Florida nursing home mogul Phillip Esformes had reached a plea deal on pending conspiracy [.] Indest III, J.D.,
Hall Render
JULY 27, 2023
In 2022, the Biden administration announced an initiative to increase the transparency of corporate and private equity ownership and operation of nursing homes. As part of this release, CMS identified groups of Medicare-certified nursing homes linked together by common owners and operators, referred to as “affiliated entities.”
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 3, 2022
My commitment to this work has led me to build innovative programs both in the community and in skilled nursing facilities, designed to provide more and better-focused care to our frail elderly. According to Bureau of Labor Statistics data 1 , the number of workers employed at nursing care facilities nationwide has declined by 15%—from 1.59
Hall Render
SEPTEMBER 22, 2023
In 2023, nursing homes have seen increased citations by surveyors for noncompliance tied to their pre-dispute, binding agreements for binding arbitration with their residents. The Arbitration Regulations revised the requirements for arbitration agreements when they are used by nursing homes to resolve disputes with their residents.
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
Meeting the Biden administration’s minimum staffing proposals for nursing homes would require facilities nationwide to hire more than 102,000 additional nurses at a cost of $6.8
C&M Health Law
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
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]
Healthcare Dive
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
In over half of states, less than a quarter of nursing facilities would meet staffing requirements under a proposed federal rule, according to a new KFF analysis.
Healthcare Dive
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
As employment continues to decline in skilled nursing facilities, regulators, healthcare industry leaders and workers’ unions are split on how to make roles more attractive.
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 6, 2023
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.
Hanys
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
With support from the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation, HANYS is offering our member nursing homes the opportunity to apply for a stipend of up to $26,000 to help cover the costs of recruiting, onboarding, certifying and training five new certified nursing assistants.
Fierce Healthcare
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
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.
Healthcare Dive
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Large hospital operators reported increasing lengths of stay and difficulties discharging patients in the first half of 2022. The answer to why lies in a perennially stressed post-acute care chassis driven to the brink by COVID-19.
HIT Consultant
JUNE 1, 2022
Nursing homes care for the elderly, people with disabilities, or those who are terminally ill. However, abuse can take many different forms in nursing homes and can devastatingly impact the residents. Implementing some steps can help protect the residents of nursing homes from abuse. Physical Abuse.
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 1, 2023
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has made good on President Joe Biden’s word during the 2022 State of the Union with new proposed staffing requirements for nursing homes. |
Modern Healthcare
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services published a proposed rule that aims to promote transparency in the often opaque realm of nursing home ownership.
Kaiser Health News
JANUARY 28, 2022
A three-judge federal appeals court panel in Connecticut has likely ended an 11-year fight against a frustrating and confusing rule that left hundreds of thousands of Medicare beneficiaries without coverage for nursing home care, and no way to challenge a denial. The trial took place in 2019. .”
Hall Render
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
Department of Health and Human Services found that most skilled nursing facilities (“nursing homes”) in Georgia that it surveyed are not correctly complying with life safety requirements or emergency preparedness requirements. The Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) of the U.S.
Med-Net Compliance
JUNE 21, 2022
The Justice Department has filed a complaint under the False Claims Act against an Ohio nursing home operator and three affiliated nursing homes for providing grossly substandard skilled nursing services between 2016 and 2018. The nursing homes are in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Iowa.
Healthcare Law Blog
JULY 5, 2023
On June 30, 2023, the New York State Department of Health (DOH) issued a notice to nursing home operators and administrators announcing that it will begin conducting assessments on July 10, 2023 of nursing homes’ compliance with the State’s minimum staffing requirements.
Hanys
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
With support from the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation, HANYS is offering our member nursing homes the opportunity to apply for a stipend of up to $26,000 to help cover the costs of recruiting, onboarding, certifying and training five new certified nursing assistants.
Healthicity
JUNE 14, 2023
Compliance professionals in the nursing home sector are well aware of the many ways government agencies survey, audit, and enforce regulatory compliance. Nursing homes have seen significant enforcement over the last few years, and the U.S.
Healthicity
MAY 23, 2023
Depression and psychiatric conditions are relatively common in the elderly and nursing home residents. However, compliance professionals need to be aware of proper medical necessity, coding, and documentation when it comes to providing psychotherapy services for nursing home residents.
The Health Law Firm Blog
OCTOBER 5, 2023
Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it has sued three nursing homes in Ohio and Pennsylvania, citing their “grossly substandard skilled nursing services.” By George F. Indest III, J.D., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On June 15, 2022, the U.S.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
AUGUST 28, 2020
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Hanys
JANUARY 19, 2024
With support from the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation, HANYS is offering our member nursing homes the opportunity to apply for a stipend of up to $26,000 to help cover the costs of recruiting, onboarding, certifying and training five new certified nursing assistants.
The Health Law Firm Blog
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law and Hartley Brooks, Law Clerk, The Health Law Firm On June 21, 2023, the Iowa Court of Appeals overturned the verdict in a nursing home negligence case that awarded $6 million in compensation and damages to the plaintiff. [.] Indest III, J.D.,
Healthcare Law Blog
JANUARY 17, 2023
As 2023 begins, the nursing home industry faces unprecedented challenges on multiple fronts. Some states are also seeking to impose monitors and enjoin nursing home operations at underperforming facilities. Preparing for 2023: Nursing Homes Brace for Reforms and Heightened Government Scrutiny.
Bill of Health
DECEMBER 18, 2023
One place where aging adults are likely to experience elder abuse occurs in long-term care (LTC) environments; this has been described as a “public health concern” in relation to the nursing home setting. In 2020, 15,000 complaints of abuse and neglect in nursing homes were reported to states’ ombudsmen across the U.S.,
Healthicity
AUGUST 22, 2023
Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a report titled, “Long-Term Trends of Psychotropic Drug Use in Nursing Homes.”
The Health Law Firm Blog
AUGUST 29, 2023
Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law and Hartley Brooks, Law Clerk, The Health Law Firm On June 21, 2023, the Iowa Court of Appeals overturned the verdict in a nursing home negligence case that awarded $6 million in compensation and damages to the plaintiff. [.] Indest III, J.D.,
Med-Net Compliance
AUGUST 9, 2022
An Illinois nursing home was named in a lawsuit alleging the staff’s negligence resulted in a resident’s fall. According to the lawsuit, when the resident was admitted to the nursing home, the staff were told that she was at risk for falls, had dementia, and was almost completely blind.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 11, 2023
Fitch Ratings: Workforce pressures easing for hospitals, ambulatory care, nursing homes dmuoio Tue, 04/11/2023 - 12:40
Healthicity
JUNE 20, 2023
Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently signaled an even stronger focus on nursing homes. The OIG plans to more closely scrutinize nursing home compliance in their work plans, audits, and oversight.
Hall Render
OCTOBER 10, 2023
As nursing homes look for funds to allow them to improve care and train nursing home staff, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released QSO-23-23-NH (“CMS Memo”), which reopens and recasts the Civil Money Penalty Reinvestment Program (“CMPRP”).
The Health Law Firm Blog
AUGUST 22, 2023
Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law and Hartley Brooks, Law Clerk, The Health Law Firm On June 21, 2023, the Court of Appeals of Iowa overturned the verdict in a nursing home negligence case that awarded $6 million in compensation and damages to the [.] Indest III, J.D.,
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