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Effective Date for Massachusetts' Long-Term Care Reform Law Nears

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On September 6, 2024, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healy signed “An Act to Improve Quality and Oversight of Long-term Care” into law. This law includes sweeping changes for both long-term care and assisted living facilities....more

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Fast Five: Important Law and Policy Updates for US Health Care Transactions

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With the end of the first quarter of 2024, we highlight five developments, changes, or challenges that health systems, hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, physician practices, health insurers, and other health care providers,...more

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Senior Living Trends Heading in a Positive Direction

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A new survey conducted by the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care unveiled some encouraging developments in the senior housing industry. The survey, which included responses from owners and executives of 39...more

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Biden Administration Foreshadows Impending Nursing Home Quality Reforms

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On February 28, 2022, the White House issued a fact sheet outlining several efforts aimed to increase safety, accountability, oversight and transparency in the senior services industry (Fact Sheet). Although the Fact Sheet’s...more

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What About Me? Liability Considerations and Protections For Businesses Outside the Drug and Device Space in the COVID-19 Era

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It’s been nearly six months since the HHS Secretary declared COVID-19 a public health emergency. As communities emerge from quarantine, businesses are on high alert regarding potential COVID-19 liability. Some businesses...more

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FCA Targets Areas For 2020 and Increased Use Of The Voluntary Disclosures

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Jody Hunt, Assistant Attorney General for DOJ’s Civil Division, and Michael Granston, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Commercial Litigation Branch, spoke recently about False Claims Act (“FCA”) enforcement at the Federal...more

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The New Appendix Q – CMS State Operations Manual Changes Overhaul Immediate Jeopardy for Providers and Suppliers

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued a Quality, Safety and Oversight Memo on March 5, 2019, which will change how state agency and CMS surveyors will analyze and identify situations of Immediate Jeopardy. ...more

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“Able New York”: The Latest ADA-Related Initiative May Create New Requirements for Long Term Care Providers

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This past July 26, 2018 was the 28th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”), landmark civil rights legislation designed to protect the rights of individuals with disabilities. ...more

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Legislation Affecting Hospitals

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As we noted in previous blogs, the New York State Legislature has addressed a number of significant hospital related issues during the 2018 session, including indigent care funding, the third iteration of the Statewide Health...more

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Scrutiny of Assisted Living Facilities

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On February 4th, the New York Times had an article which should give the ALF industry pause. It reported that at the request of four senators, the Government Accountability Office commissioned a two-year investigation of...more

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AHCA Sees the Light on Nursing Home Generator Rule, Unplugging Challenge

After Hurricane Irma made landfall in Florida, a nursing home in South Florida lost power, and several residents of that nursing home died allegedly as the result of increased temperatures caused by the loss of air...more

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Florida Administrative Law Judge Invalidates Governor’s Executive Order Mandating Generators for Senior Housing Facilities

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Last week, an Administrative Law Judge ruled against the governor and state agencies regulating senior housing communities, finding that the controversial emergency order did not address a true emergency and as written was...more

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OIG Issues Stark Warning to Skilled Nursing Facilities: Potential Abuse or Neglect of Residents Receiving Emergency Room Services...

On August 24, 2017, the Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) of the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) issued an “Early Alert” that disclosed the preliminary results of its ongoing review of abuse of Medicare...more

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