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.
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November 1 Deadline Looms as Texas Hospitals Struggle to Track Costs Related to Immigration Status
By Kathleen Campbell WalkerChair, 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.
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Sympathy for Psychosis
By Craig B. GarnerFounder, 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.
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California to Update Health Care Worker Minimum Wage Requirements
By Georgia GreenSenior 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.
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Health Plan Financial Reports for California, Ohio and Washington State
By David PeelPublisher 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.