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The Senior Medicare Patrol’s recoveries are down, but it’s keeping up the pressure on the hospice industry. Hospices have been feeling scrutiny from regulators for some time, but now it’s coming from a new source — your patients’ peers. “In [...]

In 2020, the Senior Medicare Patrol fraud-fighting program netted about half its $16.8 million in recoveries from a home health investigation (see story, p. 190). For 2021, there’s no mention of home health in the SMP annual report at all, [...]

Dive deep into the nitty-gritty definitions. Practices are comprised of many employees — who all have different roles, statuses, and responsibilities. While the skillset and, therefore, the level of compensation differs wildly between physicians and front-desk staff, you may be wondering [...]

Proposal leaves you with 3 options. A proposal to raise the minimum salary level for the so-called “white collar” exemption to overtime pay may change who qualifies for overtime at your agency. The Department of Labor issued a proposed rule March 11 [...]

These requirements show why salary is important. Need a quick brush-up on this labor law specific? Look to this definition offered by attorneys Dale Hudson and Jeffrey League with law firm Nixon Peabody: "The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) requires [...]

Big salary threshold jump for white-collar exemption in flux. The legal and regulatory back-and-forth on the so-called white-collar exemption requirements isn't over yet. Recap: On Oct. 30, 2017, the U.S. Department of Labor appealed an August 2017 federal district court's [...]

Agencies that have already announced salary changes are in a bind. A federal court decision handed down two days before Thanksgiving may have some home health agencies feeling thankful — and some not. Months of preparations for a Department of [...]

Court ruling comes as a surprise. A federal court has halted a Department of Labor rule expanding overtime costs for many private duty home health agencies and those that pay per visit. And the ruling might be a sign that [...]

If you’re a Medicaid-funded home care agency, you’ll get a breather on the Department of Labor’s new rule for overtime compensation. In the final rule, the DOL gives Medicaid agencies until March 2019 to comply with the rule setting a [...]

DOL more than doubles OT salary threshold. The overtime hits just keep coming to home care providers. After losing the companionship exemption to minimum wage and overtime laws, home care providers now have to deal with a much higher salary [...]