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False Claims Act Update: A Mid-Year Review (2023)

Healthcare Law Insights blog

The Court explained that if the Government offers a reasonable argument for why the burdens of continued litigation outweigh the benefits, the court should grant the motion, even if the relator presents a credible assessment to the contrary. Oncology, Inc. , The hospital simply left things where they were.

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Hospitals with the Most Vulnerable Maternity Patients Understaffed with Nurses

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Adherence to guidelines was particularly high for specific stages of labor, including a nurse being continuously present at the bedside during second-stage labor (93.3%) and one-on-one care during epidural initiation (84.1%). Nurses play a central role in the 3.6 million births in U.S. hospitals each year.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. Many years ago for the first study; I believe it was in 2009, 2010; I met with Susan Mitchell at the Institute for Aging Research, and told her that I wanted to study the use of feeding tubes for people with advanced dementia. Nursing homes are subsidized by their Medicare, by their rehab patients.

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Ep.6: How to Build the Right Environment for Client Referral Growth

Home Care Pulse

And I entered home health pretty quickly as a young therapist and realized, oh my gosh, what a magnificent line of service that was really as best kept secret in the Medicare world. And then if you think underneath that, there’s Medicare certified home health, palliative, and hospice, that really kind of sits in the home.

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Healthcare Industry Faces Heightened Antitrust Scrutiny Under New Merger Guidelines, HSR Rules

Healthcare Law Insights blog

The Merger Guidelines represent a significant departure from the 2010 Horizontal and Vertical Merger Guidelines, and the proposed HSR rules represent the first time the HSR process has been substantively updated in over 40 years.

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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

GeriPal

But it’s interesting because I started seeing, even though for instance I was working on this much earlier, but I published my large meta-analysis linking this to risk for premature mortality back in my first one in 2010. Eric: 2010 was so long ago, we barely had Amazon Prime then. And then the second one in 2015. Eric: Awesome.

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Ep.17: How Home Care Agencies Can Reduce Hospital Readmissions

Home Care Pulse

I was working in home Health back when it was first introduced back in 2010, as a way for c m s to not only create structured penalties for hospitals with excessive readmissions, but also to reward and incentivize those providers for effective care coordination and collaboration with post-acute providers across the care continuum.