Home Health & Hospice Week
Provider Shells Out $10 Million In COVID Vax Mandate Lawsuit.
Religious exemption denials were at issue. Has exposure to litigation based on your COVID vaccination procedures been on your mind? A recent legal settlement might amp up those worries. The NorthShore University Health System based in Evanston, Illinois, has agreed to pay $10.3 million to settle a lawsuit filed by 14 employees who had their religious exemptions for the COVID vaccination denied, according to press reports. The fund will provide compensation to about 523 of the health system’s current or former employees who were denied religious exemptions between July 2021 and January 2022. All employees terminated because of their refusal to get vaccinated for religious reasons will be eligible to be rehired at their previous level of seniority, and the health system has updated its exemption process, it says.
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HHAs To Medicare: Don’t Kick Us While We’re Down
Program is drastically underestimating agencies’ costs of doing business, rule commenters tell CMS. Home health [...] - Budget:
List Of Drastically Increased Costs Goes On And On For HHAs
Gas might be the flashiest of cost monsters, but there are plenty of others. Medicare’s [...] - Regulations:
Will CMS Listen?
HHAs wait on pins and needles for final regulation in a couple of months. Home [...] - Labor Law:
Providers Pay Millions In Wage and Hour Cases
Plus: Hospice stiffed its workers too, DOL says. If you were wondering how hard the [...] - Industry Notes:
Provider Shells Out $10 Million In COVID Vax Mandate Lawsuit.
Religious exemption denials were at issue. Has exposure to litigation based on your COVID vaccination [...] - Industry Notes:
Official Word: Plan Now For PHE Wrap-Up.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is thinking about the end of the COVID-19 [...] - Industry Notes:
CMS Ditches CMNs.
If you wish some of Medicare’s more annoying and useless requirements would just go away, [...] - Industry Notes:
Peruse New HQRP Videos From Medicare
You can access two new videos to get up to speed on certain Hospice Quality [...] - Industry Notes:
QRP Exceptions Available To Kentucky Agencies Facing Disaster
Kentucky home health and hospice agencies affected by the severe storms and flooding in the [...] - Industry Notes:
MFP Expands To 5 New States And Territories
The Biden-Harris administration is pumping more funds into Medicaid’s Money Follows the Person (MFP) demonstration [...] - Industry Notes:
New Hospice Documents Offer Crucial Info
Check out the latest hospice program info in some new hospice documents. The new hospice [...] - Industry Notes:
County Helps Reward Aides With COVID Pay
A new county program is giving home care providers a boost when it comes to [...] - Industry Notes:
Corpus Christi Hospice Forks Over $1M To Settle Qui Tam Charges
A Texas hospice will pay nearly $1 million to settle whistleblower charges that it submitted [...]
