Wrongful death suit against SNF filed too late for arbitration, appeals court rules
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Jul 26, 2017
A lawsuit claiming an Ohio skilled nursing facility was negligent in a former resident’s death can’t be sent to arbitration since the claim was filed after the statute-of-limitations had expired,...
Provider challenging $25k fine for lack of access to dying resident’s advance directive
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Alyssa Salela
Jul 24, 2017
A nursing home plans to challenge a $25,000 fine associated with the facility failing to include a resident advance directive in his healthcare plan, which may have contributed to his death.
Pay cuts coming for SNFs that don’t submit quality data, CMS warns
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Jul 20, 2017
Reimbursement cuts are less than three months away for nursing homes that fail to submit required quality data, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services emphasized to providers in a new memo.
Federal officials’ fight to enact an overtime rule that long-term care providers have dreaded won’t be continued by the new administration, according to court documents filed Friday.
CMS extends comment period for proposed new PPS
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Alyssa Salela
Jun 23, 2017
Federal regulators announced Thursday that they are extending the comment period for a proposal to revise the skilled nursing facility prospective payment system case-mix methodology.
Medicaid cuts would hurt opioid epidemic efforts, experts tell White House
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Elizabeth Newman
Jun 20, 2017
Cuts to Medicaid, whether they are in President Trump’s budget or via the GOP healthcare bill, would hurt efforts to curb opioid addiction, according to attendees at the White House’s first...
MedPAC tells Congress to hasten post-acute pay overhaul
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Jun 16, 2017
The Medicare Payment Advisory Committee has submitted its June 2017 report to Congress, and with it request that lawmakers implement a unified post-acute care payment system beginning in 2021 — earlier...
CMS wants more comments on revisions to skilled nursing case-mix methodology
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Jun 14, 2017
Long-term care providers will have 60 additional days to weigh in on potential revisions to the prospective payment system’s case-mix methodology, under a memo issued by the Centers for Medicare...
FDA mulls yanking more opioids from the market
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Elizabeth Newman
Jun 13, 2017
The Food and Drug Administration might ask more pharmaceutical companies to pull their opioid products from the market.
Also in the News for Monday, June 12
Jun 12, 2017
Minority patients more likely to get unnecessary healthcare services … Religious leaders urge Senators to preserve Medicaid funding in new health bill … FDA makes first-of-its-kind request...