Posts Tagged ‘regulations’
Home Care Compliance & Regulations:
When companionship doesn’t pay
July 20th, 2011
“The exclusion of an estimated 1.7 million home care workers from the federal minimum wage and overtime law has depressed wages in the industry and led to extremely long hours for those workers who provide round-the-clock care. These are the caregivers who get our grandmothers out of bed in the morning and facilitate the feeding tubes of our disabled neighbors. It’s time to close the loopholes that exempt them from federal wage and hour laws — laws most of us take for granted.”
Read more of this article by Catherine Ruckelshaus, National Employment Law Project and Ai-jen Poo, National Domestic Workers
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Home Care Compliance & Regulations:
Declare war on Medicare fraud, not seniors
July 13th, 2011
“As Congress wrangles over the debt ceiling, the federal budget, and the future of entitlement programs, it’s clear that the nearly $500 billion spent each year on Medicare will remain a topic of great interest.”
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Home Care Industry News:
Care worker initiative resurrected
July 11th, 2011
“OLYMPIA (WA)— Voters may get a second chance this November to require background checks and increased training for workers who care for seniors and people with disabilities.”
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Home Care Compliance & Regulations:
Hospice costs questioned
June 29th, 2011
“In the midst of debates over how to sustain Medicare, the cost of hospice has come under increased scrutiny.
Medicare’s tally for hospice care jumped more than $9 billion from 2000 to 2009, The New York Times reported. More than a million Medicare patients receive hospice services each year, and the median time in hospice care is 17 days. Four in 10 Medicare beneficiaries use hospice before they die.”
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Home Care Industry News:
Home Care Legislation Poised to Improve Quality of Care for Millions of Americans
June 27th, 2011
“The Direct Care Job Quality Improvement Act would amend the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) to include basic labor protections for home care workers. Currently, FLSA covers domestic service workers and most direct care workers in institutional settings such as nursing homes; however, the law continues to exclude home care workers from basic minimum wage and overtime protections.”
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Home Care Compliance & Regulations:
Blue Dogs want home health regulation loosened
June 22nd, 2011
“Conservative Democrats say the Obama administration is burdening home healthcare providers with overly complicated regulations.”
Tell us how you feel!
Read the article here: http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/164395-blue-dogs-want-health-regulation-loosened
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Home Care Compliance & Regulations:
U.S. plans easing rules for home care for the poor
June 8th, 2011
(Reuters) “The federal agency that provides health insurance for the poor proposed on Monday to loosen payment rules for home-based health services.
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said thousands of patients in Medicaid, the federal plan for the needy, could now have the option of home-based care, rather than care in an institutional setting.”
Read the full article here: http://natpo.st/l3GtXc
Tags: compliance, crm, health reform, home care, homecare, medicaid, medicare, playmaker, regulations
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Home Care Compliance & Regulations:
Home Care Law Blog
May 25th, 2011
Are you aware of the Home Care Law Blog? It’s a solid source for up-to-date info on legal and policy issues facing home care companies today.
Check it out here: http://www.homecarelawblog.com
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Home Care Compliance & Regulations:
Experts at odds over proposed changes in Connecticut hospice care rules
May 18th, 2011
“In the state where hospice care first arrived in America, the bar has been set high for those who care for dying patients and help them toward a peaceful, pain-free end.
Now, 28 hospice providers are hoping the state will update its rules so that more of them can create freestanding hospices like the one that until now has set the standard for end-of-life care, Connecticut Hospice in Branford.”
Read more here: http://middletownpress.com/articles/2011/05/16/news/doc4dd13a6da77a7476238595.txt
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Home Care Compliance & Regulations:
Confusion Clouds New Documentation Rule
May 11th, 2011
“Under a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) guideline that took effect April 1, physicians need to show proof of documentation before a patient can receive home care services. The documentation is known as a “certification form,” and, either on the form or as an addendum to it, physicians must show that they either they saw the patient or allowed a nonphysician provider to do so. CMS is allowing such documentation to be generated from an electronic health record.”
Read more here: http://www.the-hospitalist.org/details/article/1059923/Confusion_Clouds_New_Documentation_Rule.html
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