The readmission scores of nursing homes will be posted to the Nursing Home Compare website beginning in 2017, and the VBP program will begin Oct. 1, 2018. For the first time, facilities will not just face...
High-priority nursing home complaints likely to come under regulators’ spotlight quicker following...
By
Danielle Brown
Oct 22, 2019
The federal government and state survey agencies will likely place a heightened emphasis on high-priority complaints in nursing facilities and how soon they’re investigated based on newly released data...
Many convicted aides aren’t new to crime
By
Mary Gustafson
Nov 01, 2012
Nineteen percent of long-term care nursing aides who were found guilty of on-the-job abuse, neglect, or property theft in 2010 had prior criminal convictions, a recent federal report revealed.
The pandemic doesn’t mean you can sleep on anti-kickback law compliance
By
Neville M. Bilimoria
Sep 22, 2021
On September 8, 2021, the Department of Justice, in connection with the Office of Inspector General, announced a settlement of $17 million against a home health agency that purchased two home health agencies...
GAO: Small percentage of Medicaid beneficiaries costing much more
May 11, 2015
The Government Accountability Office last week released findings showing 5% of Medicaid-only eligible enrollees accounted for nearly 50% of the billions of government dollars paid in Medicaid-only eligible...
Medicare Part D sponsors may be overcharging beneficiaries; investigation sought
Mar 10, 2011
Congressional Democrats are calling for a full review of the Medicare Part D program following a recent audit that found that many program sponsors have been overcharging beneficiaries by underestimating...
Flirting with disaster
By
Elizabeth Newman
Apr 17, 2012
Having once slept through a 6.7-magnitude earthquake, driven blithely through snowstorms and regularly horrified my Kansas-born husband with my lack of knowledge about tornadoes, I am far from an expert...
Lawmakers question how troubled Florida nursing home owner can keep a stake in the industry
By
Marty Stempniak
Sep 07, 2018
Lawmakers hammered the owner of a shuttered Florida nursing home Thursday, saying that in the wake of resident deaths in Hurricane Irma they could not understand how he was still able to hold an ownership...
Death by Acronym
By
Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Mar 24, 2015
With apologies to Dr. Seuss, let me begin: I do not like these acronyms, these baffling lettered synonyms …
Ambulance supplier’s payment proposal could violate anti-kickback statute
Jan 04, 2011
One ambulance supplier’s proposal to receive payments from skilled nursing facilities that use Medicaid transport services could overstep the bounds of an anti-kickback statute, according to an advisory...