Resident gets 25 year sentence in long-term care rape conviction
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Oct 11, 2016
A former resident of an Ohio skilled nursing facility pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 25 years in prison last week for raping a fellow resident.
Budget deal preserves $4 billion in funding for CMS, boosts HHS funds by $2.8 billion
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May 02, 2017
Funding for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services would remain steady for the remainder of fiscal 2017 under federal spending legislation released early Monday.
Provider sues state officials for ‘regulatory assault’ against its facilities
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Mar 22, 2017
A Maryland skilled nursing operator has filed a complaint against state health officials, claiming they “abused and misused the State survey process” to target its facilities in an effort to...
HHS: Medical appeals backlog could be ‘eliminated completely’ by end of FY 2019
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Nov 09, 2016
The overwhelming backlog of Medicare claims appeals may be a thing of the past as early as fiscal year 2019, according to a court brief filed by the Department of Health and Human Services on Monday.
Republican lawmakers accuse CMS of focusing on recovering, not preventing, improper payments
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Sep 13, 2016
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services relies too much on investigating improper Medicare payments after they’re made instead of preventing them to begin with, Republican lawmakers said Monday.
CMS wants 12% decrease in hospital readmissions by 2019
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May 26, 2016
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is seeking to cut the number of 30-day hospital readmissions by 12% over the next three years under a hospital improvement plan announced Wednesday.
SNF reaches $50k settlement in disability discrimination suit
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Jan 29, 2016
A South Carolina skilled nursing facility has agreed to pay $50,000 to settle claims that it fired a licensed practical nurse due to a disability that complicated her pregnancy.
Trump budget plan would carve 18% from HHS, add millions to combat healthcare fraud
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Mar 17, 2017
President Donald Trump’s proposed budget plan for fiscal year 2018 slash the budget for the Department of Health and Human Services while putting additional funds into fraud prevention.
Medicaid official opposes ACA replacement bill ‘despite political messaging’
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Mar 10, 2017
Chief medical officer of the Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services Andrey Ostrovsky, M.D., took to Twitter on Wednesday to express his concern with legislation of the GOP’s new healthcare plan.
Former SNF nurse pleads guilty to stealing morphine, replacing it with saline
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Jan 12, 2017
A former employee of a Massachusetts skilled nursing facility pleaded guilty on Tuesday to charges that she stole morphine from the facility and replaced some of it with saline.