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Our Health Care Real Estate Briefing is your comprehensive summary of weekly health care real estate highlights currently happening across the nation. The Department of Health and Human Services extended the public health emergency through April 16, 2022. Since the pandemic began, nursing homes and assisted living facilities have lost more than 400,000 jobs. In some…Read More

On January 13, the Supreme Court handed down a pair of decisions on the CMS vaccine mandate rule and the OSHA vaccine-or-test rule. In short, the Court ruled in this opinion that CMS is not prohibited from implementing its vaccine mandate for Medicare-funded facilities (the Interim Final Rule or “IFR”). In a separate opinion, the…Read More

Recent regulations from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) based on the GME changes in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (“CAA”) create new funding opportunities for many teaching hospitals. Opportunities are available for hospitals in the following categories: CMS will award 1,000 new FTE cap slots over the next five years. CMS will…Read More

This client alert is Part 5 of our series providing insight into Medicare graduate medical education (“GME”) reimbursement changes that occurred in 2021. Part 1, which addressed resident moonlighting and redocumentation requirements, is available here. Part 2, which addressed billing requirements for physicians at teaching hospitals (the “PATH” rules) and the rules regarding cap transfers,…Read More

Facing further confusion from skilled nursing facilities and families amidst the current spike in COVID cases in the United States, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released additional best practices and addressed more issues that skilled nursing providers should follow as they encounter certain visitation scenarios. On January 6, 2022, CMS updated and…Read More

Our Health Care Real Estate Briefing is your comprehensive summary of weekly health care real estate highlights currently happening across the nation. New York Governor postponed a new law that restricts how nursing homes operate in the state. The law requires nursing homes to use 70% of their revenue for patient care and at least 40%…Read More

Note: This article has been revised to include information on the Group 2 states and Texas as of January 25, 2022. Nursing homes face possible citations, civil monetary penalties, denial of payments and—as a final measure—termination of participation from the Medicare and Medicaid programs by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) as they…Read More

Because the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (“DHS”) receives federal financial assistance, it must comply with federal civil rights requirements as a recipient of that financial assistance and must ensure that its recipients of the federal financial assistance also comply with federal civil rights laws. Accordingly, any organization that receives funds from DHS to administer…Read More