Healthcare Law Insights blog

AUGUST 15, 2023

Large managed care plans have been squarely in DOJ’s crosshairs for years, but a late July 2023 Justice Department settlement agreement with one regional healthcare provider’s Medicare Advantage Plan offers a glimpse into an issue health systems and providers with their own managed care plans need to track. 340, 2017 WL 4564722 (C.D.

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Daily Nurse

APRIL 24, 2023

percent of the total distribution in the 2017 dataset to 20.3 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. percent compared to the 2017 dataset ($300,506). And with rising healthcare costs in general, it then follows that it requires more significant verdicts to make plaintiffs whole for their losses.

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Hospice News

MAY 13, 2022

Greene joined Bluegrass Care Navigators in 2017 as its vice president and chief hospice officer and brings 15 years of hospital leadership experience. Commonly called the Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in, the VBID program requires participating hospices to offer palliative care upstream.

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Hospice News

JUNE 16, 2022

The number of deals in 2017 and 2018 hit 20 and 19, respectively, before slumping downward during the pandemic in recent years. That year, for example, LHC Group acquired home health and hospice operations in 22 states from a joint venture between Brookdale Senior Living (NYSE: BKD) and hospital system HCA Healthcare (NYSE: HCA).

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Although the Guidance is nonbinding, it reflects the OIG’s expectation that compliance programs become increasingly sophisticated in their approach to identifying and managing compliance risks as healthcare delivery and payment models continue to evolve. In addition, existing healthcare organizations that are entering new territory (e.g.,

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

APRIL 28, 2022

April 2022, however, also brings us a renewed approach and initiatives from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services regarding its National Quality Strategy. 2017 – CMS developed a new quality measures framework focused on increasing measure alignment across CMS programs and other public and private initiatives.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

JULY 21, 2022

Last week we as an industry saw RTI International release a report titled: CMS Report to Congress: Unified Payment for Medicare-Covered Post-Acute Care Analysis and Development of the Prototype Unified PAC Prospective Payment System Called for in the IMPACT Act. But onward to post-acute care and what we see coming in the future. .

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And we know that a third of Medicare beneficiaries undergo surgery in the last year of life with 18% of those occurring in the last month of life. But we know that 30% of all decedents who are Medicare beneficiaries either die from dementia or have an existing diagnosis of dementia, which is something we talk about quite often, Joel and I.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

APRIL 14, 2022

On April 11, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a proposed rule that would update Medicare payment policies and rates for skilled nursing facilities under the Skilled Nursing Facility Prospective Payment System for fiscal year 2023. . In October 2017, CMS launched the Meaningful Measures Framework.

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1-800-HOSPICE

JANUARY 18, 2022

Since the healthcare system first started keeping track of this in the 70s, most people died in hospitals. However, by 2017, home surpassed hospitals, nursing homes, and every other place as the most common place of death. In 1984, there were only 31 Medicare-certified home hospice agencies. Bereavement Services.

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

This unexpectedly and undesirably increased health insurers’ medication costs, including Medicare and Medicaid (22). By contrast, Andrew Kolodny has published three QPAs since September 2019 (131-133), after he corrected his COI disclosures for JAMA articles from 2017 and 2018 (102-105). 1999 Jan;52(1):25-7. PMID: 9926729. Phillips DM.

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The Nurse Break

DECEMBER 20, 2022

I’m from New Zealand and have been in Australia since 2017. Also while I was studying I was a casual Healthcare Assistant for a health board covering 2 hospitals and a respite/rehabilitation facility, this experience enhanced the academic skills I was learning during my training, and I would highly recommend doing this role while studying.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Remember when I wrote to you all in a January 2017 blog titled, “ Is your rehab partner wearing blinders? An excerpt from that blog here: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has consulted with Acumen in an effort to establish a comprehensive approach to Medicare Part A PPS SNF payment reform. Well, great news!

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Jessie, last time we had you on in 2017, we asked you the question, should palliative care fellowship training include management of chronic pain? 2017 podcast. But nonetheless, the methadone clinic system is entirely separate from the rest of the healthcare system. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. That was from our what?

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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

COVID-19, masks, and hearing difficulty: Perspectives of healthcare providers. Association of Sensory and Cognitive Impairment With Healthcare Utilization and Cost in Older Adults. And nurses and other healthcare practitioners knew nothing about it. Nick: Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Act, 2017 rider on the FDA bill, bipartisan.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

AUGUST 18, 2022

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has contracted with Acumen LLC and Abt Associates to develop quality and cost measures for use in the IRF, LTCH, SNF, and HH QRPs and the Nursing Home Quality Initiative (NHQI). What was this group’s aim you ask? Project Overview. Mobility Assessment Item Data Collection Start Dates.

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The Productive Home Health Nurse

DECEMBER 22, 2020

This is solely due to demand and the availability of Medicare and other funding for home health services. Just to give you an idea of the volume involved, In 2007 there were 9,024 Medicare home health agencies , and by 2017 that number had increased to 11, 593 agencies. billion in 2001 to $18.3 billion in 2012.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

MARCH 2, 2022

First, CAHPS stands for Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems. This form of hospice reporting was part of a mandate in the Affordable Care Act (ACA ) and became active in 2017. Secondly, the scores from this survey are followed and recorded by Medicare. WHAT DOES MEDICARE CAHPS REPORT?

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

They found that between 2017 and 2030, they think the percentage of the population that’s 65 and up is going to triple in that 15-year period. So they need mainstream healthcare, and they need housing support. But nothing in healthcare. We spend money in healthcare. Eric: Oh, wow. But it’s not a drug.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

I want to say like 2017, 2018, something like that. That said, I think we, and I mean collectively, not just in critical care, I think we as a healthcare system, I think we’re really good at keeping people alive. Julien: When I closed my eyes, I actually thought this is an actual recording of Chris Cornell. It was amazing.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

It was probably around, I would say, 2017 when I started seeing a lot of interest and starting to see things like the UK Minister for Loneliness. What it found is that healthcare providers are better at identifying people that are connected more than disconnected. And then the second one in 2015. Lightning round: magic wand.

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