Government report: 1 in 5 Medicare patients suffers an adverse event while receiving post-acute SNF care
By
Tim Mullaney
Mar 04, 2014
About 22% of Medicare beneficiaries experienced an adverse event during a post-hospitalization skilled nursing facility stay in fiscal year 2011, and the majority of these events were preventable, according...
For providers, the time has come to predict, prepare and partner up for the the next big threat
By
Kimberly Marselas
Apr 10, 2024
BALTIMORE — One of the newest nursing home division staff members at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services offered up her best Notradamus impression for providers here Wednesday. No, Lenise Cummings-Vaughn,...
OIG: Medicare overpaid home health agencies $5 million in 2010 for dubious claims
By
McKnight's Staff
Aug 06, 2012
Home health agencies received $5 million in overpayments for dubious Medicare claims filed in 2010, federal investigators have found.
More than half of fines and settlements from $2.3 billion recouped through healthcare fraud investigations went back into Medicare Trust Funds last year, according to a report issued Friday.
Hospitals bungling Medicare post-acute discharge codes will cost them $54.4M
By
Danielle Brown
Nov 06, 2019
Several acute-care hospitals will likely have to pay back $54.4 million to Medicare after an investigation found that the program wrongly billed inpatient claims subject to the post-acute care transfer...
OIG: Providers received millions from claims of caring for dead
By
Haymarket Media
Oct 17, 2006
Providers in several states received an estimated $27.3 million in Medicaid overpayments as a result of claims they provided care to deceased patients, according to a new report from the Department of...
OIG: Medicare Part D paid $160M for drugs already covered under Part A
By
Danielle Brown
Aug 27, 2019
Medicare Part D paid more than $160 million for drugs in 2016 that should have been covered under the Part A hospice benefit, a government report found.
Nursing home staffing shortages, infection concerns bottlenecked hospital referrals during COVID-19:...
By
Danielle Brown
Mar 26, 2021
During the height of the pandemic, hospital administrators who wanted to discharge patients to post-acute care facilities often found they were unwilling or unable to accept patients because of concerns...
False Claims lawsuit, government report raise questions about expensive types of hospice care
By
McKnight's Staff
May 08, 2013
A government lawsuit and a memorandum from the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General raise questions about the two most expensive types of hospice care.
Turning point in opioids war? Prescriptions decreased, treatment increased in 2018
By
Mallory Hackett
Jul 10, 2019
Opioid prescriptions decreased while medication-assisted treatment increased in Medicare Part D beneficiaries last year, according to a new federal report. That’s good news, according to experts battling...