With few exceptions, licensed Georgia providers, including but not limited to, nursing homes, assisted living communities, personal care homes, hospices, home health agencies, and community living arrangements, will now file...more
In this episode, AGG Post-Acute & Long-Term Care co-chair Jason Bring is joined by AGG Healthcare partner Alex Foster to discuss a recent OIG report highlighting Provider Relief Fund compliance issues within the hospice...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has issued an updated version of the Form CMS-855A that requires additional disclosures for skilled nursing facilities (“SNFs”). Effective October 1, 2024, the revised Form...more
The California Legislature recently passed Assembly Bill 3129 (“AB 3129” or the “Bill”), which, if signed by California Governor Gavin Newsom, would increase oversight of healthcare entity transactions involving private...more
Overview - The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) is launching a new model aimed at improving the quality of care and health outcomes for individuals with behavioral health (“BH”) problems. The model, announced...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has finalized 2024 home health rules to include application of the home health “36-month rule” to hospice providers. The revised rule will forbid any change in majority...more
The Illinois Legislature recently passed HB2222, new antitrust legislation that will require advance notice to the attorney general for “covered transactions” between healthcare facilities and healthcare provider entities. If...more
In another step in the years-long process of increasing transparency in the nursing home industry, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has begun posting nursing home affiliations on Nursing Home Care Compare....more
AGG’s Home Health & Hospice team publishes a quarterly newsletter covering legal and regulatory topics specific to the home and community-based healthcare industry. The fields of end-of-life and home healthcare present...more
AGG’s Home Health & Hospice team publishes a quarterly newsletter covering legal and regulatory topics specific to the home and community-based healthcare industry. The fields of end-of-life and home healthcare present...more
On April 20, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) publicly released data on home health and hospice agency ownership for the first time. The data is derived from self-reported information (primarily...more
Providers who received Provider Relief Funds (“Funds”) exceeding $10,000 in the aggregate between July 1 and December 31, 2021, are required to file reports on use of funds during Reporting Period 4. The Fund Reporting...more
After more than two years since the initial Provider Relief Fund (“Fund”) disbursement, hospices are beginning to see audits of their Fund expenditures by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (“HHS”) Office of the...more
The Health Resources & Services Administration (“HRSA”) has allowed Provider Relief Fund (“Fund”) recipients who failed to timely report on use of Funds, but still retained them, to request to report late. We previously...more
The initial phase of Provider Relief Funds (“Funds”) was distributed in April 2020, and since then, many providers have been playing catch up. The Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) recently addressed two...more
Georgia assisted living communities and personal care homes will be eligible for up to $100,000 of grant funding to reimburse COVID-related expenses. Georgia Governor Brian P. Kemp announced he will award over $217 million...more
5/4/2022
/ American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 ,
Assisted Living Facilities (ALFs) ,
Change of Ownership ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Federal Funding ,
Georgia ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Facilities ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Long Term Care Facilities ,
Reasonable Prevention Procedures ,
Risk Mitigation
For the first time, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released data publicly on skilled nursing facility changes of ownership (CHOWs)). The data, which was released on April 20, 2022, includes information...more
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) recently posted an updated timeframe for disbursement of Phase 4 Provider Relief Funding (Funding). HRSA previously expected to begin disbursing Funding in mid-December...more
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law two pieces of legislation intended to improve hospice oversight in the state on October 4, 2021. The laws resulted in part from the U.S. Department of Health and Human...more
Healthcare providers and related advocacy groups have been working for months to secure Phase 4 Provider Relief Funding (“Funds”). On September 10, 2021, the Department of Health & Human Services announced that it would make...more
With both providers and the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) focused on the Provider Relief Fund (PRF) reporting requirements since the beginning of 2021, relatively few Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) issued by...more
In response to the number of COVID-19 related deaths in New Jersey long-term care facilities, the State engaged a consulting firm to conduct a review and recommend changes. The consultant’s report noted that, “[n]ationally...more
The Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) is expected to announce a new phase of Provider Relief Funding (PRF) that would likely cover COVID-related expenses and losses during the third and fourth quarters of 2020 (and...more
As of March 9, 2021, the United States House of Representatives was continuing work to pass the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (H.R. 1319), the Biden Administration’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill. ...more
Healthcare providers that received Provider Relief Funds (“Funds”) from the Department of Health & Human Services (“HHS”) have anticipated an initial February 15, 2021 deadline for reporting on the use of Funds. However,...more