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Long-Term Care Facilities: Are You Ready for New CMS Staffing Standards and Transparency?


By Marisol Cooke
Director
Health Care Consulting Practice Moss Adams


The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently issued a final rule, Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Minimum Staffing Standards for Long-Term Care Facilities and Medicaid Institutional Payment Transparency Reporting (final rule) that went into effect on June 21, 2024. This rule is intended to establish minimum staffing standards for long-term care (LTC) facilities as part of the Biden-Harris Administration's nursing home reform initiative to ensure safe and quality care in LTC facilities. Read article
Hospital Nurse Checking Radiology Images

November 1 Deadline Looms as Texas Hospitals Struggle to Track Costs Related to Immigration Status


By Kathleen Campbell Walker
Chair, Immigration Practice Group, Dickinson Wright PLLC

On November 1, certain Texas hospitals must comply with an Executive Order issued by Governor Greg Abbott on August 8, 2024 (Order), requiring them to document medical costs related to the care of individuals without legal immigration status. Read article
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Sympathy for Psychosis


By Craig B. Garner
Founder, Garner Health Law Corporation

Mass psychogenic illness (MPI) involves symptoms of widespread illness through a specific population without any responsible infectious agent. Also known as mass sociogenic illness, mass psychogenic disorder, epidemic hysteria or simply mass hysteria, this rapid onset of symptoms without any organic basis spread only by sight and sound puts the somatic in the psycho. Due to the subjective nature of this condition, MPI is to bioterrorism what Lazarus Syndrome is to resurrection. Read article
Young CNA helping Senior in Walker

California to Update Health Care Worker Minimum Wage Requirements


By Georgia Green
Senior Manager, Health Care Consulting Practice, Moss Adams

Senate Bill (SB) 525, signed by California Governor Gavin Newsom, set into motion a series of deadlines to implement minimum wage payment increases at health care facilities, for both clinical and non-clinical staff and contractors. The bill aims to address the deficit of health care workers following the COVID-19 pandemic. Read article
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Health Plan Financial Reports for California, Ohio and Washington State


By David Peel
Publisher and Editor, Healthcare News

We recently updated our financial reporting for health plans in California, Ohio and Washington State. Click on the links below to see the numbers.

Most Downloaded Articles


The following articles were downloaded most often from January 2024 through June 2024.
  1. An Overview of the Nurse Manager’s Guide to Budgeting and Finance 2nd Edition By Al Rundio, PhD, DNP, RN, APRN, NEA-BC, FNAP, FIAAN, FAAN
  2. Top Five Shoes for Nurses By David Peel, Publisher and Editor, Healthcare News
  3. Rethink Performance Management to Serve Your Employees - and Your Organization By Brett Addis, Director, Human Capital Advisory of Moss Adams
  4. Recharge and Illuminate Your Workplace in 2024 By Danna Beal, M.Ed., International Speaker, Author and Coach
  5. New California Health Care Worker Minimum Wage Requirements in 2024 By Georgia Green and Pat Oungpasuk of Moss Adams
  6. TikTok Does Not Like Your Hospital By Craig B. Garner, Founder, Garner Health Law Corporation
  7. Mitigate Risk in Your Emergency Department By Dawn Isaacs and Pat Oungpasuk of Moss Adams
  8. CMS to Provide Incentive Payments to ACOs and Primary Care Providers in 2025 By Georgia Green and Steven Hartley of Moss Adams
  9. Top Health Care Concerns: Prepare for Reimbursement and Transaction Constraints By Chris Pritchard, Partner and Health Care Industry Practice Leader, Moss Adams
  10. FTC Declares Employees Free from Most Noncompetes, But How Far Does the Ban Go and Will It Last? By Jeffrey M. Beemer and Alleanna B. Siacon of Dickinson Wright PLLC