Post Acute & Long-Term Care

• Post-Acute Emergency Preparedness: Do You Qualify for a Testing and Training Exemption? (October 6, 2020)
• HHS Updates Details on Nursing Home Infection Control Distribution Qualification and Uses – Four Keys (September 24, 2020)
• Seven Keys to the HHS $2 Billion Provider Relief Fund Nursing Home Performance-Based Incentive Distribution (September 4, 2020)
• COVID-19 CARES Funding Relief to Assisted Living Facilities – Five Keys and Five Actions to Take Now (September 3, 2020)
• Nursing Homes: CMS Interim Final Regs – Increased Fines and Requirement to Test Nursing Home Residents and Staff for COVID-19 (August 26, 2020)
• Skilled Nursing COVID-19 Antigen Testing: CLIA Certificates of Waiver and New Policies Needed (July 17, 2020)
• Creating Swing Beds: Key Regulatory, Operational, Billing and Compliance Considerations Under the CMS Blanket Waivers (July 8, 2020)
• Home Health PPS Proposed Rule CY2021: Some Good News (June 29, 2020)
• Skilled Nursing Reopening to Visitors: Key Questions for Revising Your Visitor Policies and Procedures from CMS (June 25, 2020)
• Reimagining Skilled Nursing Infection Control: Five Key Areas of Focus from the CDC (June 18, 2020)
• Reimagining Skilled Nursing Compliance Programs: Five Key Areas of Focus from the DOJ (June 9, 2020)
• HHS Releases COVID-19 CARES Funding Relief FAQs for Skilled Nursing Facilities – Details on Distribution Calculations and Use of Funds (June 3, 2020)
• Infection Control and Auditing CARES Act Provider Relief Funds – OIG Unveils COVID‑19 Skilled Nursing Focus (May 27, 2020)
• HHS Distributing $4.9B in COVID-19 CARES Funding Relief to Skilled Nursing Facilities – Five Actions to Take Now (May 22, 2020)
• Policy Updates to Compliance Program Needed When Creating “COVID-19 Ready” Skilled Nursing Facilities and Units (May 18, 2020)
• Fine, Everything Is Being Fined! Two New F-Tags and Three Key Developments For Nursing Homes Reporting COVID-19 Cases to CDC (May 7, 2020)
• Some Is Good, But More (Reporting) is Better – 9 Key Points on the New Skilled Nursing CDC COVID-19 Reporting Regulations (May 1, 2020)
• Ten Takeaways from the CMS “Ask Me (Almost) Anything” Q&A on Skilled Nursing Facilities and Nursing Facilities Issues (April 27, 2020)
• CMS to Require Nursing Homes to Report COVID-19 Cases to CDC, Residents and Resident Representatives (April 20, 2020)
• Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Issues in Health Care Mergers & Acquisitions: Three Short-Term Fixes to Avoid Long-Term Issues (April 16, 2020)
• National Healthcare Decisions Day – Know Your Residents’ Advance Directives! (April 16, 2020)
• CMS Memo Offers COVID-19 Discharge, Transfer and Cohorting Guidance for Skilled Nursing Facilities and Nursing Facilities (April 14, 2020)
• Updates on SNF Blanket Waivers – Physician Delegations (April 10, 2020)
• Creating COVID-Only Skilled Nursing Facilities: Advantages and Disadvantages (April 9, 2020)
• Medicare’s Interim Final Rule Addressing COVID-19 Provides Some Home Health and Hospice Relief (April 1, 2020)
• Skilled Nursing Facilities: Compliance Lessons from Kirkland, Washington (March 31, 2020)
• Testing! Testing! CMS Issues Guidance to Help Laboratories During the COVID-19 Pandemic (March 30, 2020)
• CARES Act Cares for Home Health and Hospice (March 27, 2020)
• CMS Prioritizes Certain Provider Surveys and Halts Others in Response to COVID-19 (March 25, 2020)
• Guidance for Use of Certain Industrial Respirators by Health Care Personnel (March 25, 2020)
• Do SNFs, HHAs and Hospice Providers Need Individual Section 1135 Waivers for COVID-19 Activities? (March 20, 2020)
• COVID-19 Guidance for Home Health Agencies (March 18, 2020)
• CMS Offers COVID-19 Guidance and Flexibility to PACE Programs (March 18, 2020)
• CMS Memo Offers Additional Revised COVID-19 Guidance for Skilled Nursing Facilities (March 16, 2020)
• CMS Suspends Most Non-Emergency Inspections Across the United States with Goal to Focus on Infectious Diseases and Abuse (March 6, 2020)