Ask the Payment Expert about … keeping finances in order for 2017
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Patricia Boyer
Feb 05, 2017
With the first month of 2017 already behind us, what are some recommendations to keep your “financial house in order” the rest of the year?
Provider to pay $300k in vaccine dispute
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Feb 05, 2017
A Pennsylvania-based healthcare provider has agreed to hand over $300,000 to settle allegations that it fired employees who requested religious exemptions from the organization’s vaccination policy.
HHS issues rule that speeds up appeals
By
Elizabeth Newman
Feb 05, 2017
A Department of Health and Human Services final rule may allow providers to move more quickly through the backlog of 700,000-plus Medicare-related appeals.
Progress denied
By
John Hall
Feb 05, 2017
‘Prior level of function’ rule can complicate rehabilitation efforts, as providers wrestle with cost, quality of care and what a resident’s goals are in maintaining quality of life
Groups urge Trump to save some of ACA
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Feb 05, 2017
LeadingAge, along with 71 other nonprofit aging organizations, sent a letter in mid-January urging then-President-elect Donald Trump to preserve some nursing-home related provisions of the Affordable Care...
Shuttered Iowa SNF to pay $100,000 to resolve claims of ‘worthless’ care
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Feb 03, 2017
The owners of a Iowa nursing home that closed this week have agreed to pay $100,000 to settle allegations that the facility provided “grossly substandard” care to residents.
CMS rule on ‘risky’ provider affiliations withdrawn by Trump administration
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Feb 01, 2017
A rule that would have placed more scrutiny on providers’ partnerships has been put on hold by President Donald Trump’s administration.
Former SNF employee awarded $69,000 in pregnancy discrimination case
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Jan 30, 2017
A Kentucky skilled nursing facility will have to pay more than $69,000 to a former employee who claims the provider fired her because she was pregnant, authorities announced last week.
LeadingAge to lawmakers: Final rule places ‘impossible burdens’ on providers
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Jan 30, 2017
Providers are “gravely concerned” and need regulatory relief because of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’s recent issuance of a final rule for nursing homes, LeadingAge said...
Advancing Excellence hosts forum Jan. 31
Jan 26, 2017
The Advancing Excellence in Long Term Care Collaborative will meet Tuesday, January 31 at LeadingAge headquarters in Washington, D.C.