[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
[10/14/11]
Posted on October 14, 2011 in Long-Term Care, Home Health & Hospice
Written by: Bufford, David W.
Just weeks after ongoing development of the CLASS Act stalled, Secretary Sebelius announced today the implementation of the CLASS Act has been completely halted. Reflecting concerns over the sustainability of the program and the potential for the development of a new entitlement program, the Department of Health and Human Services determined the financing plans related to the Act... READ MORE
Tags: bufford, class act, cms, halt, jent, long term care, Obama, PPACA, sebelius, selby, stalled
