Publications by Brian D. Jent

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Hospice Update: CMS Pauses Implementation of the Hospice Special Focus Program for Calendar Year 2025  

[02/17/25]

Post-Acute Enrollment Update: CMS Expands Enhanced Oversight to Include Reactivating Providers

[02/14/25]

Nursing Home Update: CMS Updates and Expands Surveyor Guidance for Medical Director Role and Mental Health Assessments

[02/04/25]

Hospice Update: Surveyors Called to Identify Quality of Care Concerns and Potential Fraud Referrals

[01/29/25]

Rhode Island Law Update: New Law Allows Cameras in Nursing Homes and Assisted Living Facilities

[01/23/25]

Post-Acute and Enrollment Update: CMS Issues Section 1135 Waivers for California Wildfires

[01/17/25]

Illinois Long-Term Care Law Update: Changes to Nursing Home Change of Ownership Process

[01/15/25]

Nursing Home Update: CMS Confirms Acute Respiratory Illness Reporting Requirements

[01/08/25]

CMS Revises Core Appendix Q Guidance on Immediate Jeopardy

[12/30/24]

Nursing Home 2024 Legal and Regulatory Year in Review

[12/23/24]

CMS Updates Disclosure Requirements for Skilled Nursing Facilities – Provider Enrollment Off-Cycle Revalidations

[12/17/24]

Post-Acute Compliance Program Update: OIG Proposes Amendments to Exclusion Rules

[12/11/24]

Post-Acute Provider Update: CMS Clarifies Unannounced Site Verification Visits

[12/03/24]

OIG Issues Highly Anticipated Industry Segment-Specific Compliance Program Guidance for Nursing Facilities

[11/25/24]

OIG Reveals Nursing Homes Challenged with Life Safety and Emergency Preparedness Regulations

[11/21/24]

Home Health Update: CMS Finalizes New Acceptance-to-Service Policy Requirement

[11/14/24]

CMS Final Rule Calls for Ongoing Respiratory Illness Reporting through NHSN for Nursing Homes

[11/06/24]

CMS Extends Deadline for Disclosure Requirements for Skilled Nursing Facilities – Provider Enrollment Off-Cycle Revalidations

[11/06/24]

Nursing Home Update: Upholding Resident Voting Rights

[10/28/24]

New Medicare Disclosure Requirements for Skilled Nursing Facilities – Provider Enrollment Off-Cycle Revalidations – Watch for a Revalidation Request

[10/22/24]

Buyer Beware: CMS Finalizes Ownership Disclosure Requirements for Medicare Skilled Nursing Facilities and Medicaid Nursing Facilities

[12/20/23]

Connecticut Long-Term Care Law Update: Changes to Nursing Home Change of Ownership Process

[10/20/23]

Nursing Home Update: CMS Recasts the Civil Money Penalty Reinvestment Program 

[10/10/23]

Nursing Home Update: OIG Reveals Failure to Comply with Nursing Home Life Safety and Emergency Preparedness Regulations

[09/28/23]

Nursing Home Arbitration Agreements: Recent Trends in Citation Risks and Solutions

[09/22/23]

CMS Proposes Minimum Staffing Standards for Long-Term Care Facilities

[09/06/23]

Nursing Home Update: Addressing Sexual Interactions Between Cognitively Impaired Residents – Policy Reviews Needed

[08/21/23]

Skilled Nursing Update: CMS Finalizes Changes to SNF Value-Based Purchasing, SNF Quality Reporting Program and Civil Monetary Penalties

[08/11/23]

Arizona Assisted Living Law Update: New Assisted Living Disclosures to Emergency Responders and Hospital Discharge Requirements

[08/03/23]

Medicare Exact Match Update: Provider Compliance Required Effective 8/1/2023

[07/28/23]

Nursing Home Update: CMS Begins Posting Nursing Home Ownership and Nursing Home Performance Data

[07/27/23]

CMS Hammers Down on New Hospices and Hospice Changes of Ownership in Four States 

[07/18/23]

Hospice Update: CMS Proposes Informal Dispute Resolution Program, Starting Special Focus Program and Change of Ownership Restrictions 

[07/12/23]

Post-Acute Update: CMS Gives Nursing Homes and Home Health Agencies an Admission Playbook

[07/05/23]

Indiana Assisted Living Law Update: New Requirements for Memory Care Providers  

[06/27/23]

Skilled Nursing Facility Update: CMS Begins National Probe and Educate Audits

[06/23/23]

Iowa Long-Term Care Law Update: Changes to Nursing Home Change of Ownership Process

[06/12/23]

CMS Final Rule Terminates COVID Vaccination Mandate and Finalizes Regulations for Long-Term Care Facilities

[06/05/23]

Long-Term Care Update: Indiana Sets Requirements for Temporary Health Care Staffing Agencies

[05/23/23]

Nursing Home Update: CMS Unwinds Vaccine Mandate and More Regulations as Public Health Emergency End Nears

[05/02/23]

Proposed Ownership Disclosure Requirements for Medicare Skilled Nursing Facilities and Medicaid Nursing Facilities

[02/21/23]

Skilled Nursing Transactions Update: CMS Enhances Scrutiny of Changes of Ownership for Skilled Nursing Facilities

[11/18/22]

Nursing Home Update: CMS Updates and Expands Surveyor Guidance for Nursing Homes for Phase 2 and 3 Requirements of Participation – Key Areas and Timeline

[06/30/22]

Skilled Nursing Update: White House Creates Its Vision Board for Nursing Homes with Staffing Requirements, Ownership Transparency and Higher Fines

[03/08/22]

Skilled Nursing Update: CMS Adds New F Tag and Survey Guidance on COVID-19 Vaccine Requirement Regulations – REVISED

[01/06/22]

CMS Issues Surveyor Guidance for COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Interim Final Rule

[01/05/22]

CMS Finalizes Co-Location Guidance: Uncertainty Remains

[11/18/21]

Nursing Homes: CMS Interim Final Regulations – New Mandates on Vaccine Offering, Education and Reporting

[05/11/21]

New OSHA Enforcement Efforts Target Health Care Employers

[03/30/21]

CMS Recasts Infection Control Focused Survey Triggers for Nursing Homes

[01/26/21]

Eight Key Elements of the Hospice Medicare Survey and Certification Process Created in New Law

[01/19/21]

HFAP Merges with ACHC to Provide Expanded Services

[01/04/21]

New DEA Pharmacist’s Manual: Top Five Changes Pharmacies Need to Know

[11/11/20]

The Future of Post-Acute Administrative Enforcement and Appeals – White House Proposes Ten “Principles of Fairness”

[10/19/20]

Post-Acute Emergency Preparedness: Do You Qualify for a Testing and Training Exemption?

[10/06/20]

HHS Updates Details on Nursing Home Infection Control Distribution Qualification and Uses – Four Keys

[09/24/20]

Seven Keys to the HHS $2 Billion Provider Relief Fund Nursing Home Performance-Based Incentive Distribution

[09/04/20]

COVID-19 CARES Funding Relief to Assisted Living Facilities – Five Keys and Five Actions to Take Now

[09/03/20]

CMS Expands Skilled Nursing and CLIA Survey Activity and Guidance

[08/31/20]

Nursing Homes: CMS Interim Final Regs – Increased Fines and Requirement to Test Nursing Home Residents and Staff for COVID-19

[08/26/20]

Skilled Nursing COVID-19 Antigen Testing: CLIA Certificates of Waiver and New Policies Needed

[07/17/20]

Home Health PPS Proposed Rule CY2021: Some Good News

[06/29/20]

Skilled Nursing Reopening to Visitors: Key Questions for Revising Your Visitor Policies and Procedures from CMS

[06/25/20]

Reimagining Skilled Nursing Infection Control: Five Key Areas of Focus from the CDC

[06/18/20]

Reimagining Skilled Nursing Compliance Programs: Five Key Areas of Focus from the DOJ

[06/09/20]

HHS Releases COVID-19 CARES Funding Relief FAQs for Skilled Nursing Facilities – Details on Distribution Calculations and Use of Funds

[06/03/20]

Infection Control and Auditing CARES Act Provider Relief Funds – OIG Unveils COVID‑19 Skilled Nursing Focus 

[05/27/20]

HHS Distributing $4.9B in COVID-19 CARES Funding Relief to Skilled Nursing Facilities – Five Actions to Take Now

[05/22/20]

Policy Updates to Compliance Program Needed When Creating “COVID-19 Ready” Skilled Nursing Facilities and Units

[05/18/20]

CMS Flexibilities for Relocation of Provider-Based Hospital Departments During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency

[05/07/20]

Fine, Everything Is Being Fined! Two New F-Tags and Three Key Developments For Nursing Homes Reporting COVID-19 Cases to CDC

[05/07/20]

Some Is Good, But More (Reporting) Is Better – 9 Key Points on the New Skilled Nursing CDC COVID-19 Reporting Regulations

[05/01/20]

CMS Provides New Avenues for Freestanding EDs to Participate in Medicare and Medicaid

[04/29/20]

Ten Takeaways from the CMS “Ask Me (Almost) Anything” Q&A on Skilled Nursing Facilities and Nursing Facilities Issues

[04/27/20]

CMS to Require Nursing Homes to Report COVID-19 Cases to CDC, Residents and Resident Representatives

[04/20/20]

Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Issues in Health Care Mergers & Acquisitions: Three Short-Term Fixes to Avoid Long-Term Issues

[04/16/20]

National Healthcare Decisions Day – Know Your Residents’ Advance Directives!

[04/16/20]

CMS Memo Offers COVID-19 Discharge, Transfer and Cohorting Guidance for Skilled Nursing Facilities and Nursing Facilities

[04/14/20]

Updates on SNF Blanket Waivers – Physician Delegations

[04/10/20]

Creating COVID-Only Skilled Nursing Facilities: Advantages and Disadvantages

[04/09/20]

Medicare’s Interim Final Rule Addressing COVID-19 Provides Some Home Health and Hospice Relief

[04/01/20]

Skilled Nursing Facilities: Compliance Lessons from Kirkland, Washington

[03/31/20]

Testing! Testing! CMS Issues Guidance to Help Laboratories During the COVID-19 Pandemic

[03/30/20]

COVID-19’s Implications for EMTALA Compliance

[03/30/20]

CARES Act Cares for Home Health and Hospice

[03/27/20]

Guidance for Use of Certain Industrial Respirators by Health Care Personnel

[03/25/20]

Hospital Exact Match Claim Edits Further Delayed Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic

[03/25/20]

CMS Prioritizes Certain Provider Surveys and Halts Others in Response to COVID-19

[03/25/20]

COVID-19 Guidance for Home Health Agencies

[03/18/20]

CMS Offers COVID-19 Guidance and Flexibility to PACE Programs

[03/18/20]

COVID-19 Pandemic: Accreditation Agencies Halt Surveys

[03/17/20]

CMS Memo Offers Additional Revised COVID-19 Guidance for Skilled Nursing Facilities

[03/16/20]

CMS Suspends Most Non-Emergency Inspections Across the United States with Goal to Focus on Infectious Diseases and Abuse

[03/06/20]

Emergency! OIG SNF Audits Reveal Failure to Comply with Life Safety and Emergency Preparedness Regulations

[02/13/20]

CMS Announces Post-Acute Priorities for 2020 – Final Regulations, State Operation Manual Updates, Home Health and Hospice Survey Process Revisions

[12/20/19]

CMS Memo Addresses Status of Interpretive Guidance for Phase 3 Skilled Nursing Facility Regulations and Arbitration Agreements

[11/25/19]

Skilled Nursing Licensure Update: Changes to Kansas Skilled Nursing Change of Ownership Law

[11/06/19]

California Law Update: Changes to Firearm Laws for Assisted Living Facilities

[10/31/19]

Red Alert: CMS Nursing Home Compare Website to Add Red Alert Icons for Facilities with Abuse and Neglect Citations

[10/11/19]

Next Up for Patient Driven Payment Model? Key Legal and Compliance Considerations Ahead for PDPM

[10/08/19]

Countdown to Phase 3 – Skilled Nursing Infection Preventionist

[10/02/19]

Discharge Planning: Key Takeaways from the Long-Awaited Final Rule

[10/02/19]

Ohio Law Update: Changes to Skilled Nursing Change of Operator Process

[09/24/19]

CMS Finalizes New Anti-Fraud Tools Aimed at Affiliations

[09/10/19]

Skilled Nursing Arbitration Agreements Are Back with Restrictions – CMS Issues Final Regulations on Skilled Nursing Arbitration Agreements

[08/14/19]

CMS Proposes One-Year Delay for Certain Phase 3 Skilled Nursing Requirements – Changes Made to Compliance and Ethics Programs and Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement Programs

[07/17/19]

Countdown to Phase 3 Skilled Nursing Compliance Programs – Component #8 – Respond and Take Corrective Action

[07/15/19]

Location Matters Update: CMS Postpones Exact Match Billing Rule – AGAIN

[07/02/19]

Countdown to Phase 3 Skilled Nursing Compliance Programs – Component #7 – Consistent Enforcement of Discipline Procedures

[06/28/19]

New Admission Disclosure Requirements for Indiana Skilled Nursing and Assisted Living Facilities

[06/28/19]

Countdown to Phase 3 Skilled Nursing Compliance Programs – Component #6 – Auditing and Monitoring Procedures to Promote Compliance

[06/21/19]

Staff Training and Policy Reviews Needed: OIG Finds Skilled Nursing Facilities Failing to Report and Investigate Incidents of Potential Abuse and Neglect

[06/14/19]

Countdown to Phase 3 Skilled Nursing Compliance Programs – Component #5 – Effective Communication of Compliance Standards to Staff, Contractors and Volunteers

[06/10/19]

Countdown to Phase 3 Skilled Nursing Compliance Programs – Component #4 – Screening Process for Positions With Discretionary Authority

[06/06/19]

CMS Finalizes New Regulations for Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) Organizations

[06/04/19]

Countdown to Phase 3 Skilled Nursing Compliance Programs – Component #3 – Sufficient Resources and Authority

[05/29/19]

Countdown to Phase 3 Skilled Nursing Compliance Programs – Component #2 – Assign Oversight Responsibility of Compliance Program

[05/22/19]

Countdown to Phase 3 Skilled Nursing Compliance Programs – Component #1 – Policies and Procedures

[05/15/19]

CMS Postpones Rules for Billing Off-Campus Provider-Based Departments Until July 2019

[03/29/19]

CMS Ends Freeze on Nursing Home Five-Star Rating System

[03/13/19]

CMS Revises Guidance on Immediate Jeopardy and Creates New Surveyor Tools – Actions Needed to Prevent and Defend Skilled Nursing Immediate Jeopardy Citations

[03/07/19]

Location Matters: Get It Right or Don’t Get Paid

[03/06/19]

Expect Active Follow-Ups: OIG Finds State Survey Agencies Are Not Verifying Facilities’ Corrections of Deficiencies

[02/13/19]

Ohio Supreme Court Case: Nursing Facility Could Not Collect Deceased Husband’s Debt from Wife Under Ohio’s Necessaries Law

[01/29/19]

CMS Targets Inadequate Registered Nurse Staffing in Skilled Nursing Facilities – More Weekend Surveys and F-Tag Directive

[12/31/18]

Nursing Home Fine Upheld for Inadequately Addressing Sexual Interactions Between Cognitively Impaired Residents – Policy Reviews Needed

[12/13/18]

Countdown to Phase 3 – Skilled Nursing Facilities Need to Create a Compliance and Ethics Program

[11/29/18]

Selling Your Nonprofit Nursing Home? New York’s Attorney General Details Concerns About Sales of Nonprofit Nursing Homes

[11/13/18]

CMS Issues Final Interpretive Guidelines for the Conditions of Participation for Home Health Agencies

[09/06/18]

CMS Adds Survey Process for Reviewing Home Dialysis Services in Long-Term Care Facilities

[08/28/18]

CMS Issues Final Rule on FY 2019 Payment and Policy Changes for Skilled Nursing Facilities

[08/07/18]

CMS Updates Requirements to Reduce Legionella Risk in Health Care Facility Water Systems and Identifies Surveyor Expectations – Review of Policies and Procedures Required

[07/12/18]

CMS Guidance May Prevent Inpatient Rehabilitation Claim Denials

[03/05/18]

CMS Issues Reminder for Change in Ownership Reporting

[01/30/18]

CMS Issues 18-Month Moratorium and Delays Enforcement of Some Phase 2 Requirements for Long-Term Care Facilities

[11/27/17]

CMS Issues Draft of Interpretive Guidelines for the Conditions of Participation for Home Health Agencies

[11/01/17]

CMS Guidance Impacts Micro Hospitals

[10/05/17]

CMS Clarifies Definition of Hospital: What It Means to Be “Primarily Engaged”

[09/07/17]

Countdown to Phase II Compliance: The Facility Assessment for Long-Term Care Facilities – Review of Facility Resident Population and Resources Required

[08/22/17]

CMS Revises CMP Policies and Analytic Tool CMS Uses to Impose Fines – Opportunities Exist for Facilities to Reduce CMPs

[08/01/17]

CMS Issues Clarification of Notice Requirements to Long-Term Care Ombudsman when Resident Is Transferred or Discharged from Long-Term Care Facility – Review of Practices, Policies and Procedures Required

[07/24/17]

CMS Issues Requirement to Reduce Legionella Risk in Health Care Facility Water Systems – New Policies and Procedures Required

[07/17/17]

CMS Issues Guidance Suspending Enforcement of Penalties for Phase 2 Requirements and Revises F-Tags

[07/11/17]

Sleep Centers Wake Up to Medicare Accreditation Changes

[05/05/17]

CMS Finalizes New Conditions of Participation for Home Health: Part 6

[02/06/17]

CMS Finalizes New Conditions of Participation for Home Health: Part 5

[02/01/17]

CMS Finalizes New Conditions of Participation for Home Health: Part 4

[01/30/17]

CMS Finalizes New Conditions of Participation for Home Health: Part 3

[01/26/17]

CMS Finalizes New Conditions of Participation for Home Health: Part 2

[01/20/17]

CMS Finalizes New Conditions of Participation for Home Health: Part 1

[01/17/17]

CMS Issues Guidance Suspending Enforcement of Rule Prohibiting Use of Pre-Dispute Binding Arbitration Agreements While Court Ordered Injunction Remains in Effect

[12/19/16]

Court Grants Preliminary Injunction in Favor of American Health Care Association’s Complaint Against CMS for Arbitration Provision Changes Contained in New Regulations

[11/07/16]

American Health Care Association Announces Complaint Against CMS for Arbitration Provision Changes in New Regulations

[10/18/16]

CMS Finalizes New Regulations for Facilities: Part 4

[10/14/16]

CMS Finalizes New Regulations for Facilities: Part 3

[10/13/16]

CMS Finalizes New Regulations for Facilities: Part 2

[10/10/16]

CMS Finalizes New Regulations for Facilities: Part 1

[10/07/16]

CMS Finalizes New Regulations for Facilities

[09/29/16]

CMS Issues Guidance on Protecting Resident Privacy and Prohibiting Abuse-Related Photographs and Recordings by Nursing Home Staff

[08/08/16]

CMS Proposes Enhanced Provider Enrollment Disclosure Obligations and Enforcement Authority

[03/07/16]

Updates to Provider Enrollment Revalidation

[03/03/16]

CMS Proposes Comprehensive Revision of LTC Requirements for Participation: Review of New Regulations for Facilities

[07/16/15]

Deferred Covered Treatment SNF Stay Policy Updated

[03/30/15]

Five-Star Ratings to Undergo Revisions

[02/12/15]

New CMS Regulation Targets Billing Privileges

[12/11/14]

CMS Reiterates Need for Discharge Assessment to Non-Certified Beds

[08/29/14]

CMS Extends HHA Moratoria in Select Metro Areas

[08/11/14]

Extension of Due Date for Nursing Home Automatic Sprinkler Installation

[05/22/14]

CMS Publishes Final Rule on Enforcement Actions for CLIA Proficiency Testing Referral

[05/13/14]

Obama Budget Contains Numerous Post-Acute Care Cuts

[03/05/14]

OIG Study Offers Insight to Pharmacies Regarding How to Evaluate Physicians’ Prescribing Habits

[11/13/13]

CMS Issues Guidance on Survey and Certification Activities During Government Shutdown

[10/04/13]

Revised Advance Directives Guidance

[03/12/13]

Luer Misconnections Resulting in Adverse Events

[03/12/13]

Office of Inspector General Cautions Physicians Who Reassign Their Medicare Benefits

[02/08/12]

CMS Clarifies Hospital Equipment Maintenance Requirements

[12/07/11]

OMPP Changes Indiana Medicaid Rx Refill Policy

[11/11/11]

Medicare Provider Revalidation Requests

[11/09/11]

CMS Releases Final ACO Regulations

[10/20/11]

Medicare Reforms Will Reduce Regulatory Burdens for Hospitals and Health Care Providers and Increase Revenue

[10/19/11]

Medicare Providers/Suppliers Must Revalidate Enrollment by March 2013

[08/11/11]

CMS Issues Revised CMS-855A

[07/07/11]

CMS Revises the Medicare Enrollment Application – Institutional Providers CMS-855A

[07/07/11]

Indiana Enacts Uniform Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Act

[06/24/11]

Important Information Regarding Payment of the Medicare Enrollment Application Fee

[03/25/11]

Hall Render’s Practical Health – February/March 2011

[02/01/11]