Foster Swift

APRIL 14, 2022

On April 7, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued an update to the COVID-19 emergency declaration blanket waivers for specific providers. Read More › Tags: Alerts and Updates , Health Care Reform , Hospitals , Medicare , Medicare/Medicaid.

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Foster Swift

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have recently released updated guidance regarding hospital co-locations arrangements. Read More › Tags: Health Care Reform , Hospice , Hospitals , Medicaid Planning , Medicare , Medicare/Medicaid.

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McBrayer Law Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

Posted In Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) , Code Enforcement , Medicare In addition to staying up to date on the constantly changing landscape of COVID-19 requirements, healthcare providers must also stay well-informed of industry changes unrelated to the pandemic.

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McBrayer Law Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Because the payment error rate was so high at a colossal 31%, Medicare-Severity Diagnosis Related Group ("MS-DRG") applicable entities must take note and prepare for a marked increase in Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General ("OIG") audits for these coding practices.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Caravan Health President and CEO Tim Gronniger previously was chief of staff and director of delivery system reform at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. While Congress and CMS have considered permanently expanding access to telehealth and virtual care, there is a big price tag attached.

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Healthcare Law Today

DECEMBER 8, 2022

On November 28, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Center for Clinical Standards and Quality issued a memorandum to State Survey Agency Directors stating that hospitals risk Condition of Participation (CoP) violations for failure to adequately respond to and prevent incidents of workplace violence.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

Hospitals will negotiate hard with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and Medicare Advantage plans to be paid on a per month basis to ensure there is a continuous revenue stream, moving away totally from a fee-for-service agreement. Much like hospitals, imaging centers also suffered significant losses in 2020.

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Hall Render

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Surveys CMS has two citation tags for violations of the Arbitration Regulations, F-847 and F-848. When used appropriately, these agreements can streamline conflict resolution processes, but operators must tread carefully to ensure compliance with the regulations.

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has retooled guidance it armed surveyors with regarding how to survey skilled nursing facilities for compliance with the CMS staff vaccine requirements. F-888 is the citation tag that was created under 42 CFR Section 483.80(i), Key Surveyor Guidance Revisions.

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Healthcare Compliance Blog

MARCH 15, 2022

This allegation includes over reporting the number of hours that nurses provided care to residents to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Allegedly, this over reporting to CMS resulted in fraudulently increasing the facilities’ star ratings in some categories.

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Hall Render

MAY 2, 2023

The F-Tag associated with this regulation is F-886. The CMS Memo provides that while this specific regulatory requirement will end with the PHE, CMS still expects facilities to conduct COVID testing in accordance with accepted national standards, such as national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) recommendations.

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Med-Net Compliance

JULY 25, 2022

A Nebraska family health center failed to provide timely access to medical records. A public benefit corporation that operates a hospital located in Buffalo, New York, failed to timely provide an individual with a complete copy of his medical records.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Many want to target drug costs and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has mandated hospitals to post a list of their standard charges by diagnostic-related group, in an effort for consumers to have transparent cost options. Vanderbilt combines AI and Smart on FHIR in an EHR voice assistant.

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 1, 2023

to Recruit, Train Primary Care Students UAMS Gets $17.5M to Recruit, Train Primary Care Students UAMS Gets $17.5M to Recruit, Train Primary Care Students UAMS Gets $17.5M to Recruit, Train Primary Care Students UAMS Gets $17.5M to Recruit, Train Primary Care Students UAMS Gets $17.5M

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Hall Render

MARCH 28, 2023

The end of the PHE has a significant impact on skilled nursing facilities (“SNFs”) as it ends the remaining regulatory blanket waivers, revisits resident Medicaid eligibility and changes many COVID regulations that were issued during the PHE. The F-Tag associated with this regulation is F-886. Expedited Enrollment.

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Hall Render

APRIL 12, 2024

New president tapped to lead major hospital system in Denver area New president to lead opening of $650M hospital in Wheat Ridge Telehealth program offers support to forensic nurses Colorado Medicaid program settles lawsuit over lack of mental health care for children Colorado is trying to cut prescription drug prices.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2020

The good news for telehealth is that the reimbursement environment has improved, with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services bringing telehealth and eVisits on par with in-person visits for the duration of the pandemic, along with a relaxing of rules for virtual consults across state lines.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) program, used by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to rate hospitals, now contain two measures of SDoH. Another report from CODE calls for better tagging of data with SDoH. Like many SDoH tools, the analysis identifies vulnerable patients and does risk stratification.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Without action from Congress, most of the telehealth flexibilities will cease, cutting off telehealth access to a majority of Medicare beneficiaries. They ushered in an unprecedented wave of connected health technologies, particularly for Medicare beneficiaries. Region Tag: Global Edition. We cannot afford to let that happen.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Without action from Congress, most of the telehealth flexibilities will cease, cutting off telehealth access to a majority of Medicare beneficiaries. They ushered in an unprecedented wave of connected health technologies, particularly for Medicare beneficiaries. Region Tag: Global Edition. We cannot afford to let that happen.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 13, 2023

A lot of the week was spent with health plans and Medicare Advantage or Medicaid focused providers or management companies extolling the virtues of “whole person health,” “coordinated care” and other similar approaches. There are a lot of “blockbuster” drugs coming to market today and in the near future with eye-watering price tags.

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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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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Similar to a URL for a web page, every resource has an own identification tag. Devices and apps can easily obtain necessary data through that tag without going through laborious data exchange procedures. A resource may contain text, metadata, or bundled groups of data that together make up clinical documentation.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

NATIONAL Amazon Pharmacy, One Medical pilot program integrates medication consultations Bad news for FTC’s noncompete ban Cigna to sell Medicare business to HCSC for $3.3B 5 highest paid anesthesiologists in Washington, DC D.C.’s

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Hall Render

MARCH 22, 2024

To qualify, facilities must close their beds Amazon’s physician acquisition strategy As Many Hospitals Continue to Face Significant Financial Challenges, MedPAC Recommends Highest Ever Medicare Payment Update Change competitors step in but breaking up may be hard to do CMS to launch new primary care ACO program Congress unveils $1.2T

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Daytona Beach medical office building/surgery center HCA Healthcare breaks ground on new freestanding ER in Orlando Lee Health’s new state-of-the-art bloodmobile hits the road Naples physician charged with Medicare fraud gives up license; enters guilty plea Nemours opens full-time office for children in Panama City with St.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

patients Denver paramedics company takes center stage in TV program hosted by actor Dennis Quaid Denver startup aims to ease the aging process Is this Denver mental health tech unicorn shaping up for an exit? CALIFORNIA 8 ASCs opening in Florida, California and New York A bankrupt California hospital left a health care desert.

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