Antitrust Considerations in Long-Term Care — Assisted Living and the Law Podcast
Hospice Insights Podcast: What’s the Latest on UPICs? Highlights from Recent Audit Activity, Part I
AGG Talks: Healthcare Insights Podcast - Episode 6: Charting the Future of Nursing Home Staffing
AGG Talks: Home Health & Hospice Podcast - Episode 5: Understanding Palliative Care: Strategies for Compliance and Reimbursement
Hospice Insights: Check the Mail: Are You Getting a 4% Rate Cut?
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 197: The Next Generation of Senior Living with Tate Stewart and Alan Moise of Thrive Senior Living
Hospice Insights Podcast - Deal Breakers: Identifying Key Issues Early in Member Substitutions
Hospice and Home Health Survey Perspectives: A Conversation with Kim Skehan, VP of Accreditation at CHAP
Year in Review: Key Regulatory Updates in 2023
Stories of Successful Hospice Leadership: The CEO and Compliance Officer Relationship
A Very “Special” Episode: Amid Controversy, CMS Launches the Hospice Special Focus Program
Grace from CMS: Unexpected Good News on HIS and CAHPS Appeals
Williams Mullen's Strategies for Senior Care: The Upside of Compliance Plans for Senior Care Facilities
This Bandwagon Has a Broken Wheel: OIG Joins the Inconsistent Approach to Hospice GIP Claims
The Gift That Keeps On Giving: TPE Insights and Strategies
Behind the Curtain: Enhanced Provider Enrollment Oversight
Williams Mullen's Strategies for Senior Care: Is Your Senior Care Facility Ready for Day One (and Two) of a Certification or Complaint Survey?
Williams Mullen's Strategies for Senior Care: Agency Investigations of Senior Care Facilities
Medicaid Minute: Did Medicaid Send You a Notice Saying Your Care Cost May Be Increasing?
Long-Term Care Investigations: Critical Steps To Mitigate Risk and Protect Your Residents, Staff and Reputation
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As a lawyer, I have exclusively represented long-term care healthcare providers for over ten years. I have gained useful insight into how people plan—or, in many cases, fail to plan—for the possibility that they may need...more
As part of the Biden administration’s initiative to ensure safe and quality care in long-term care facilities, on May 10, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) published a final rule implementing minimum...more
Last month, on April 22, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued its Minimum Staffing Standards for Long-Term Care Facilities final rule, which will apply to any long-term care (LTC) facilities that receive...more
On April 22, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued Medicare and Medicaid Programs: Minimum Staffing Standards for Long-Term Care Facilities and Medicaid Institutional Payment Transparency Reporting,...more
A final federal rule raising minimum staffing requirements for long-term care (LTC) facilities that receive Medicare or Medicaid funding becomes effective June 21, starting a staggered timeline for LTCs to create and...more
On April 22, 2024, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a final rule that will require long-term care facilities (LTCFs) to satisfy minimum nurse staffing standards with the goal of addressing patient...more
Summary - The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently published a proposed rule that, if finalized, will provide new minimum staffing level requirements for all long-term care facilities reimbursed by...more
In February 2022, US President Joseph Biden announced an overhaul of regulations affecting nursing homes. These reforms, aimed at enhancing the safety and quality of care for nursing-home residents, focus on improving...more
On September 1, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Minimum Staffing Standards for Long-Term Care (LTC) Facilities and Medicaid Institutional Payment Transparency Reporting proposed rule. This...more
CONGRESS - House Republicans Release Healthcare Package. On September 6, House Republicans unveiled the Lower Costs, More Transparency Act, a draft package of healthcare transparency provisions, pharmacy benefit manager...more
If you recognize the first part of the title of the blog post, then we share the same taste in movies! The well-known phrase (which I modified slightly), “If you build it, he will come,” comes from my favorite movie, Field of...more
On September 1, 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a long-awaited proposal to establish new federal minimum staffing standards for long-term care facilities. If the proposed rule is finalized,...more
In an age where digital connectivity is rapidly advancing, cybersecurity has become an inescapable concern for organizations across industries. With cyber threats ranging from data breaches to ransomware attacks, it is...more
For better or worse, generative artificial intelligence (AI) is already transforming the way we live and work. Within two months of its initial release to the public, ChatGPT reached 100 million monthly active users, making...more
Loan defaults and financial distress among long term care (LTC) facilities, such as skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), assisted living facilities (ALFs) and memory care facilities, are on the rise. The COVID-19 pandemic has...more
Nearly 2 years after the launch of more than 30 proposed class actions arising from the COVID-19 pandemic upended the Canadian class action landscape, pandemic-related class actions risk, and ongoing litigation appear to have...more
President Biden recently announced his Federal Fiscal Year Budget Proposal, which included a proposal to hold long-term care (LTC) facility owners accountable for noncompliant closures and substandard care. Specifically,...more
President Biden delivered his first State of the Union address on March 1, 2022. During his address, Biden mentioned private equity backed nursing homes, commenting on the perceived decline in quality and increased costs...more
On February 28, President Biden announced that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will be issuing new regulations for nursing homes. HHS will be issuing regulations through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...more
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Virtual assistants such as Amazon’s Alexa, Facebook’s Portal, Google’s Nest Hub, and countless others continue growing in popularity as families navigate safely remaining connected with their loved ones receiving long-term...more
Private equity investors in nursing homes should brace and prepare for an active near-term enforcement environment. Congressional skepticism of private equity involvement in healthcare, developments in False Claims Act cases...more
Kentucky long-term care facilities recently won a landmark victory at the Kentucky Supreme Court protecting certain documents created by or at the request of the Quality Assurance Committee from disclosure in litigation. ...more
On October 4, 2016, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released the final rules regarding the requirements of participation for skilled nursing facilities. One of the most significant changes to the...more