Other states should follow suit, feds suggest. If you had given up hope on the feds trying to enforce the U.S. Supreme Court’s Olmstead decision, a new Health and Human Services release may make you reconsider. Recap: The 1999 Olmstead [...]
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) looks to fortify section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 with new proposals that prohibit discrimination in healthcare against people living with disabilities. The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has [...]
Federal agencies are willing to enforce penalties against noncompliant providers. Ensuring ease of access for all clients is a cornerstone of good customer service. But failure to do so might provoke more than frustrated customers (or, in the realm of [...]
A recent settlement highlights provider’s failure to help patient. If you don’t have policies in place to assist your deaf or hard-of-hearing patients, you should. A recent case reminds providers that the responsibility of offering interpretation services and aides to [...]
HHS, DOJ will monitor for 18 months. If you’ve been neglecting your duty to furnish interpretation services for patients, you could be opening yourself up to a lawsuit, fines, and more. That has been the case for one provider in [...]
HCFAC rakes in $5 billion. Hunting health care fraud is big business for the feds, and the latest annual Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program Report shows why it will continue. “During Fiscal Year (FY) 2021, the Federal Government [...]
Pro tip: Calling a payment to a physician a ‘copay’ doesn’t mean it’s not a kickback. Hunting health care fraud is big business for the feds, and the latest annual Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program Report shows why [...]
Say goodbye to notices and taglines. The mainstream press may have taken note of how a recent federal nondiscrimination rule treats transgender status, but hospice providers shouldn’t overlook the rule’s language-related regulatory changes. Reminder: A year ago, in June 2019, [...]
Direct reimbursement for telehealth visits is not in the rule. The future of home care telehealth is murky, thanks to provisions in the new home health payment proposed rule that fall far short of home care providers’ expectations. In the [...]
Notices and taglines are going away. How a new federal nondiscrimination rule treats transgender status is grabbing national headlines, but home care and hospice providers shouldn't overlook the rule’s language-related regulatory changes. Reminder: A year ago, in June 2019, the [...]
