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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
June 24, 2019

Recent Findings by Office of Inspector General Regarding Reporting of Potential Abuse and Neglect at Skilled Nursing Facilities

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently released the findings of an audit performed to determine the prevalence of incidents of potential abuse or neglect of Medicare beneficiaries residing in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). Specifically, OIG looked at beneficiaries who resided in a SNF during 2016 and who also had a hospital emergency room (ER) Medicare claim containing a high-risk diagnosis code. 

Long Term Care & Senior Living Blog
June 28, 2015

Fraud & Abuse Alert: OIG targets Excluded Employees

The OIG has demonstrated an increased focus on investigating employers to determine whether any employees are excluded from participating in Federal health care programs. When the OIG investigations reveal excluded employees, who allegedly provided items and services to Federal health care programs beneficiaries resulting in payments to the employers, the OIG has sought and obtained settlements to resolve those allegations.

Long Term Care & Senior Living Blog
January 15, 2014

OIG, CMS release Final Rule for the Stark Exception, Anti-Kickback Safe Harbor for Electronic Health Records (EHR) Donation

While the donation of a valuable item such as an EHR program would raise fraud and abuse concerns, exemptions under Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Safe Harbor were designed to encourage the widespread implementation of EHR and to let smaller providers accept gifts of EHR software without violating the law or statute.