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23 Aug 2016, 9:00 am
A recent memorandum issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") to state survey agency directors (the "Memorandum") discusses a nursing home's responsibility to protect residents' privacy, particularly with regard to social media. [read post]
22 Aug 2016, 2:50 pm
More specifically, CMS warns that individuals who are steered into an individual market plan for renal dialysis services and have a kidney transplant while enrolled in the private plan will not be eligible for Medicare Part B coverage of their immunosuppressant drugs if they later enroll in Medicare; in a sign of the agency’s particular concern about this patient population, CMS has sent letters to all Medicare-enrolled dialysis facilities and… [read post]
21 Aug 2016, 11:53 am
According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the most common forms of drug diversion are: Selling prescription drugs (usually by patients); Doctor shopping; Illegal internet pharmacies; Drug theft; Prescription pad theft and forgery; Illicit prescription. [read post]
19 Aug 2016, 8:51 am
Recently Announced Policies to Combat Social Media Abuse According to the advocacy group’s report, the federal agency that oversees nursing homes, known as The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, recently released a memorandum to all state health departments, requesting that all nursing homes accepting Medicare funds implement policies specifically prohibiting staff from taking demeaning pictures or videos of residents. [read post]
19 Aug 2016, 8:51 am
Recently Announced Policies to Combat Social Media Abuse According to the advocacy group’s report, the federal agency that oversees nursing homes, known as The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, recently released a memorandum to all state health departments, requesting that all nursing homes accepting Medicare funds implement policies specifically prohibiting staff from taking demeaning pictures or videos of residents. [read post]
18 Aug 2016, 9:38 am
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released its latest quality ratings of nursing homes in the United States. [read post]
18 Aug 2016, 9:38 am
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released its latest quality ratings of nursing homes in the United States. [read post]
16 Aug 2016, 8:58 am
Following a journalism non-profit ProPublica series on the troubling issue, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the federal government agency responsible for oversight of nursing homes in the U.S., has issued a memorandum to state health departments indicating: Ensuring all nursing homes have clear policies that forbid staffers from taking demeaning photos of residents; Requiring state health officials to swiftly launch an investigation into any… [read post]
16 Aug 2016, 8:15 am
A few years ago, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) conducted a pilot program, which inspected 1,500 outpatient surgery centers and cited 28 percent for infection control deficiencies related to surgical instrument cleaning and sterilization. [read post]
12 Aug 2016, 8:49 am
Over the last year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has been working on a federal rule that would prohibit forced arbitration agreements in nursing homes across the country, permitting facilities instead to have only voluntary binding arbitration agreements (like those in California). [read post]
12 Aug 2016, 7:05 am
After an alarming report by the website ProPublica, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has announced plans to crack down on nursing home employees who take demeaning photographs and videos of residents and post them on social media websites. [read post]
12 Aug 2016, 7:05 am
After an alarming report by the website ProPublica, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has announced plans to crack down on nursing home employees who take demeaning photographs and videos of residents and post them on social media websites. [read post]
12 Aug 2016, 6:31 am
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced proposals for three new “episode payment models” that, like the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) model, would mandate provider participation in selected geographic areas. [read post]
11 Aug 2016, 1:20 pm
Kenneth Michael Rice, employed by UMC Physicians, improperly billed Medicare and Medicaid for services not rendered by a physician. [read post]
10 Aug 2016, 5:09 am
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released its final rule to update Medicare acute hospital inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) and long-term care hospital (LTCH) prospective payment system (PPS) payments and policies for fiscal year (FY) 2017. [read post]
9 Aug 2016, 2:48 pm
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently issued a proposed rule to address the significant backlog resulting from “an unprecedented and sustained increase” in its Medicare appeals. [read post]
9 Aug 2016, 11:21 am
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which supervises nursing homes across the country, posted a memo to state health departments on Friday stating that all nursing homes need to have policies in place that forbid staff from taking and posting humiliating photos of the nursing home residents. [read post]
9 Aug 2016, 5:00 am
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is estimating that out-of-pocket health costs per capita will rise from around $1,000 in 2014 to more than $1,300 per person by 2021. [read post]
8 Aug 2016, 9:00 am
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") recently announced the statewide expansion of its temporary moratorium on the Medicare enrollment of new home health agencies ("HHAs"), subunits, and branch locations in Michigan. [read post]
6 Aug 2016, 9:42 am
Melgen overbilled the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) $ 8.9 million from 2007 to 2008 and (2) a contract (x-ray technology) dispute between Dr. [read post]
