A hospice operating in Phoenix, Arizona, Serenity Hospice and Palliative Care, has agreed to pay $2.2 million to resolve civil allegations that the company violated the federal False Claims Act by submitting false bills to Medicare for hospice services.
There are many challenges to determining who was responsible for the corporate misconduct. The Deputy Attorney General of the DOJ released six steps that show common procedure taken in an investigation of corporate misconduct.
In recent years, hundreds of studies, articles, and reports have been conducted regarding the relationship between nurse staffing levels and quality of care in nursing homes.
Compliagent CEO Nick Merkin was recently featured in an article by Marni Usheroff at the Los Angeles Business Journal on social media for physicians. To read the original source article, please visit Los Angeles Business Journal.
During a SNF Open Door Forum conference call on September 17, 2015, federal officials stated SNFs that submit electronic staffing data on October 1, 2015, will see the best results in terms of data submission testing.
John Hall at McKnight's Long-Term Care News reported that during the first day of the White House Conference on Aging, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) unveiled a 403-page proposal of changes for Medicare and Medicaid participation.
Compliagent CEO Nick Merkin was quoted in AHC Media's online publication on a recent potential HIPAA breach by an ESPN reporter. Nick states that "as a legal matter, the press is not covered by HIPAA."
Emily Mongan at McKnight’s Long-Term Care News reports that CliftonLarsonAllen, a CPA Consulting Firm, released their Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Cost Comparison Report, which details dynamic trends in the long-term care (LTC) industry.
How is the government celebrating Medicare’s big birthday? One way is by increasing its fight AGAINST fraud. But what does that mean for healthcare providers?
Emily Mongan at McKnight's Long-Term Care News reported that, according to new research in the Journal of Nursing Studies, Long-term care (LTC) nurses spend more than half of their time completing tasks that do not involve resident care.
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