Healthcare, Senior Living, Economics
In a post I wrote at the end of July concerning CMS’ 2010 rate announcement and compliance and regulatory trends, I indicated how the OIG was becoming more vigilant in reviewing hospice utilization, lengths of stay and in particular, the correlation between lengths of stay and hospice patients in an SNF. This past month, in mid-September, the … Read more
This seemed to be a natural successor topic to my last post, “Why Quality Matters”; principally arising out of recent press releases from the OIG. For example, in June the OIG reported that it had recovered $2.4 Billion in fraud, waste and abuse. In July, an OIG release reported that a Nursing Home Executive was banned … Read more
In the past month or so I have had a lot of conversations with various entities ranging from providers to investors about the financial state of the industry. The majority of the discussions have been around all things financial – reimbursement in particular and as this topic goes, so goes expenses. Understandably the economic and … Read more