[03/22/13]
Posted on March 22, 2013 in Long-Term Care, Home Health & Hospice
Written by: Bufford, David W.
During yesterday’s Open Door Forum, Jeanette Kranacs, the Director of the Division of Institutional Post-Acute Care for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) commented that CMS will not be issuing instructions to surveyors on evaluating compliance and ethics programs until the regulations have been promulgated. CMS was required to have final regulations and various tools in place as of... READ MORE
Tags: ACA, billing, bufford, cms, compliance, ethics, improvement, jent, long term care, nf, oig, PPACA, program, qapi, regulation, rug, sebelius, selby, snf
[02/06/13]
Posted on February 6, 2013 in Long-Term Care, Home Health & Hospice
Written by: Bufford, David W.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) requires all skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and nursing facilities (NFs) to have an effective compliance and ethics program in place by March 23, 2013. Unfortunately, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has failed to publish final regulations covering these programs, as required under PPACA, by... READ MORE
Tags: bufford, cms, compliance, ethics, facility, jent, long term care, nf, nursing, oig, policy, program, regulation, selby, skilled, snf
