Janet Yellen hit on numerous topics Thursday in the opening session of the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care Fall Conference.
Under a final rule issued Thursday, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services can deny or revoke Medicaid and Medicare program enrollment from providers and suppliers if an owner or manager is directly or indirectly affiliated with an organization that previously had its enrollment revoked.
Sept. 13 is the deadline Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Bob Casey (D-PA) on Friday gave to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Administrator Seema Verma and the directors of the eight external quality review organizations that audit Medicaid managed care organizations to answer questions about access and quality of states’ long-term services and supports programs.
Assisted living providers who serve Medicaid beneficiaries will be the focus of a report released by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General in fiscal year 2020, the office said Thursday.
A new report from the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General references personal care services and personal care services attendants, long-term care employee background checks and assisted living hospice care.
Kentucky put at risk the health and safety of some older and disabled adults receiving home- and community-based services through section 1915(c) Medicaid waivers because its annual inspections were “insufficient,” according to a report released Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Human and Human Services Office of Inspector General.
Providers receive two-year reprieve on non-emergency transport coverage … Operator faces lawsuit after resident allegedly left in hot van for 6 hours … Insurer focuses on health apps to improve workplace wellness program effectiveness
ProMedica’s Paramount may cease Medicaid coverage … Georgia to reinstate Medicaid benefits to residents who lost them
A coalition of 23 states, cities and municipalities filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the federal government for a final rule that allows individual healthcare workers as well as healthcare organizations to decline to provide care that conflicts with their religious and moral beliefs or mission.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said it will step up its work with states to ensure that adult foster care homes and other home- and community-based settings meet health, safety and administrative requirements after a review by the Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General found compliance lacking.
