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This was another dynamic year for the health care industry and for health care real estate, which is demonstrating remarkable resiliency and innovative success in the face of unprecedented challenges. This article summarizes a number of key 2021 takeaways and trends that were discussed during our 2021 Health Care Real Estate Year in Review... READ MORE

The Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) recently released details about qualifying for its nursing home infection control distributions. Previously, on September 3, 2020, HHS announced the details of its $2 billion Provider Relief Fund (“PRF”) performance-based incentive payment distribution to nursing homes (“NH Incentive Payments”). “Nursing homes” refers to skilled nursing facilities... READ MORE

On August 25, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released over 200 pages of interim final regulations (the “Interim Final Regulations”) to clarify new enforcement requirements for nursing homes, add requirements for labs to report COVID-19 test results during the public health emergency and require nursing homes to test residents and... READ MORE

CMS recently issued an update of a memorandum entitled “COVID-19 Emergency Declaration Blanket Waivers for Health Care Providers” (“Blanket Waiver Memo”) that announced additional blanket waivers for providers, including hospitals and skilled nursing facilities (“SNFs”) as a result of the COVID-19 public health emergency (“PHE”). The waivers have a retroactive effective date of March... READ MORE

Summary In a February 2019 report, No. A-01-17-00506, HHS Office of the Inspector General (“OIG”) determined that Medicare made Part B payments to ambulance suppliers for transportation services that were covered through the Medicare Part A payments to skilled nursing facilities (“SNF”) as part of consolidated billing requirements. With certain exceptions, the SNF Part... READ MORE

Summary On February 14, 2019, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (“CMMI”) launched a new five-year payment model for emergency ambulance services named the Emergency Triage, Treat and Transport Model (“ET3”). ET3 will enable participating ambulance providers and suppliers (“Ambulance Providers”) to partner with qualified... READ MORE