OIG to investigate nursing home compliance with facility-initiated discharges … New Hampshire reinstates extra weekly stipend for nursing home workers during public health crisis … Feds see $15B decrease...
Nursing homes’ infection control oversight still called feds’ No. 1 problem
By
Danielle Brown
Oct 28, 2021
A federal watchdog agency remains hot on its investigation of nursing homes’ compliance with infection control regulations — and how the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services oversees their progress.
I pay dead people
By
Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Nov 12, 2013
On Oct. 31 (an ironic coincidence?) a report from the Office of inspector General frighteningly said Medicare paid some $23 million in benefits for more than 17,000 dead people in 2011. And my husband...
Also in the News for Tuesday, April 9, 2024
By
Kimberly Marselas
Apr 09, 2024
CMS rates didn’t adequately cover COVID lab costs: OIG … Change hackers claim they also took CVS, Medicare data in cyberattack … Kansas City nursing home closed following attorney general complaint...
The projected recoveries to the federal government from fraud-related audits and investigations are expected to rise 33% — or by $1.7 billion — in fiscal 2012, the Department of Health and Human Services...
Also in the News for Thursday, July 20
By
James M. Berklan
Jul 20, 2023
OIG raises concern about high rates of prior authorization denials by Medicaid Managed Care plans … While others fight to get dismissals, one nursing home settles COVID wrongful death case … House...
Also in the News for Monday, March 18, 2024
By
Kimberly Marselas
Mar 18, 2024
Senators challenge HHS leader on funding for nursing home staffing mandate … NIC releases industry sentiment measure … OIG adds audits of nursing home falls reporting, drug overdoses to work plan...
Report blasts QIOs’ efforts, questions leniency
By
Haymarket Media
Jun 14, 2007
A new report raises questions about whether contractors for quality improvement organizations are doing enough to detect and prevent quality of care problems in the Medicare program.
Regulators: Provider gift cards to nursing home residents won’t draw fines
Jul 09, 2008
A healthcare system that proposes giving gift cards to residents and other customers it disappoints with poor service is on firm legal ground, federal regulators say.
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Mar 24, 2015
OMB begins review of Medicaid managed care … Medicaid expansion has led to surge in diabetes diagnosis…Statins can stop for terminal patients, researchers advise