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Long Term Care & Senior Living Blog

We offer updates on national on regional issues such as malpractice defense, regulatory compliance, labor and employment issues and estate planning.

Long Term Care & Senior Living Blog
January 11, 2017

HIPAA Update - Newest Settlement of $475,000 Results From Untimely Breach Report

Don’t let your clients get caught paying a “big” settlement for failing to report a HIPAA breach! For the first time, the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has announced a HIPAA settlement with a provider who failed to provide a timely breach report. Presence Health, a health network serving Illinois with approximately 150 locations, including 11 hospitals and 27 long-term care and senior living facilities, has been ordered to pay a $475,000 HIPAA settlement and being directed to implement a corrective action plan because it failed to report a breach in a timely manner.

Long Term Care & Senior Living Blog
September 4, 2014

CMS Offers to Settle Pending Appeals of Denied Claims

As a result of the substantial backlog of pending appeals for denied inpatient claims, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued an offer to settle these denied claims in exchange for the hospitals withdrawal of pending appeals. Acute Care Hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals have until October 31, 2014 to make a settlement request. The settlement offer provides for hospitals to enter an administrative agreement to receive timely partial payment (68%) of the net allowable amount in exchange for withdrawal of their pending appeals.

Long Term Care & Senior Living Blog
July 23, 2014

EPA to Change Hazardous Pharmaceuticals Waste Management?

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed changes that may impact the way pharmaceuticals, especially those containing hazardous waste ingredients, are handled through reverse distribution. Organizations generating pharmaceutical waste including pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, long-term care facilities and physicians groups may be impacted. The following excerpt comes from the EPA website.