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8 Nov 2020, 1:22 am by Jon L. Gelman
 "The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), reported as of September 6, 2020, almost 300,000 confirmed or suspected COVID-19 infections among nursing home staff, of whom 868 have been killed by the disease. [read post]
30 Oct 2020, 11:55 am by Michael Lowe
  Since federal funding (Medicare, Medicaid) may be attached to the institution, federal cases can also be filed based upon federal law. [read post]
28 Sep 2020, 8:58 am by Robert Liles
”[1]  Among its many changes, the Final Rule significantly expanded the reasons that may be asserted by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) when revoking a health care provider’s enrollment and Medicare billing privileges. [read post]
28 Sep 2020, 8:58 am by Robert Liles
”[1]Among its many changes, the Final Rule significantly expanded the reasons that may be asserted by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) when revoking a health care provider’s enrollment and Medicare billing privileges. [read post]
12 Sep 2020, 11:46 am by Robert Liles
While most health care and providers obtained a temporary reprieve from, Medicare, Medicaid and private payor administrative audits[1], many state and federal law enforcement agencies (such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (OIG), state Medicaid Fraud Control Units (MFCUs) have continued to investigate allegations of wrongdoing against sober… [read post]
27 Aug 2020, 9:05 pm by Joshua Burd
” The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that nursing homes are now required to test staff for COVID-19, offer testing to residents for COVID-19, and report testing data to the U.S. [read post]
24 Aug 2020, 9:05 pm by Florencia Bohl
Relying on the APA’s exemption of normal rulemaking requirements in emergency circumstances, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued an interim final rule in late March granting flexibility for health providers to use telehealth services during the COVID-19 pandemic to reduce hospitalizations and visits to medical centers. [read post]
On June 19, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a final rule scaling back nondiscrimination regulations first released in 2016 to implement Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). [read post]
3 Aug 2020, 9:07 pm by Simon F. Haeder
Department of Health and Human Services, and particularly the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which conducted two-thirds of all rulemakings. [read post]
This proposal aligns with an October 2018 advance notice of proposed rulemaking by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) that sought public comments on aligning the payment amount for certain Part B drugs with international prices (also known as “reference pricing”). [read post]
24 Jul 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
The official definition of a gift is broad and covers virtually any good or service with monetary value. [read post]
17 Jul 2020, 11:07 am by Michael Lowe
This can also fall under Medicare or Medicaid fraud if the homebound patient receives home care as part of either benefit program. [read post]
12 Jul 2020, 6:40 pm by Ben Vernia
  UHS is headquartered in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.As part of a comprehensive civil settlement, UHS will pay the United States and participating states a total of $117 million to resolve allegations that its hospitals and facilities knowingly submitted false claims for payment to the Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE, Department of Veterans Affairs, and Federal Employee Health Benefit programs for inpatient behavioral health services… [read post]
25 Jun 2020, 1:04 pm by Joshua Cossin
The ACA “requires each hospital operating within the United States to establish and make public ‘a list of the hospital’s standard charges for items and services provided by the hospital.'” In November “the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), issued a final rule defining ‘standard charges,’ delineating… [read post]
18 Jun 2020, 1:23 pm by Lisa Larrimore Ouellette
In early April, the National Association of Medicaid Directors asked the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to allow states to make emergency retainer payments to essential Medicaid providers. [read post]
16 Jun 2020, 8:53 am by Jonathan H. Adler
Her opinion begins: In May 2019, the United States Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services published a rule that broadly requires drug manufacturers to disclose in their television advertisements the wholesale acquisition cost of many prescription drugs and biological products for which payment is available under Medicare or Medicaid. [read post]
12 Jun 2020, 10:26 am by Lonnie Roach
The Social Security Administration handles enrollment for Medicaid in states where SSI recipients are automatically eligible for Medicaid, while other states require a separate application for Medicaid. [read post]
8 Jun 2020, 9:05 pm by Simone Hussussian
During the 2020 Democratic primary race, the debate over how to reform the United States’ health care system took center-stage. [read post]
2 Jun 2020, 1:01 pm by Matthew Schwencke
A government analysis of data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) found that over 80 percent of the 14,550 nursing homes surveyed fell short of maintaining standard-operating procedures involving the most basic of behaviors by their employees: staying home when they are sick and washing their hands. [read post]