OIG Report Finds Providers Didn’t Comply with Advance Care Billing Requirements
As of January 1, 2016 Medicare began paying for advance care planning conversations. Payments for these services from 2016 through 2019 totaled more than $340 million but a new Office of Inspector General (OIG) report with brief found...
OIG Report on Psychotropics in Nursing Homes
The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released a report on November 14th on the use of psychotropic drugs in nursing homes. The report utilized Minimum Data Set (MDS) data and Medicare claims data...
Action Alert: Urge Your Senators and Representatives to Enact Key Aging Services Priorities Before...
On November 15th, LeadingAge issued an action alert urging Congress not to adjourn its session without enacting key services and supports for older adults. “In the remaining weeks of 2022, Congress must not leave...
Temporary Staffing Agencies & Workers’ Compensation
Recently, a LeadingAge Kansas/KING Member began negotiations with a Temporary Staffing Agency. The Agency considers their staff Independent Contractors and does not provide workers’ compensation coverage. Instead, they require the Contractors to carry Occupational Accident...
Contact Your Member of Congress to Encourage Him/Her to Join House 21st Century LTC Caucus
The newly formed bipartisan House 21st Century Long-Term Care (LTC) Caucus launched this summer. The LTC Caucus Co-chairs, Reps. Ann Kuster (D-NH) and Bryan Steil (R-WI), are planning to host their first event early...
CARE/PASRR Office Hours with KDADS Staff
The CARE and PASSAR process continue to cause slowdowns and headaches for Medicaid and other payer sources when individuals are admitted to LTC. Join the new KDADS CARE team for a monthly office hours session...
CDC Updates Opioid Prescribing Guidance
CDC released updated Clinical Practice Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids for Pain on November 4. These updates replace previous guidelines published in 2016. Read the press release and access the guidelines here. The 2022 Clinical Practice Guideline addresses the...
November Semmelweis Times
Read the latest newsletter from KDHE’s HealthCare Associated infections and Antimicrobial Resistance Program.
iQIES Provider Security Officials Onboarding for MDS
CMS will release the Internet Quality Improvement Evaluation System (iQIES) for MDS submission in early 2023. Although the MDS submission functionality will not be available immediately, CMS encourages Provider Security Officials (PSOs) to request...
Tracheostomy Tube Shortages
The FDA announced on October 31 that there is a shortage of tracheostomy tubes due to a supply shortage of raw materials that are used to manufacture the tubes. The FDA announcement specifically lists Bivona tracheostomy...
Fire Marshal News
Chief of Inspections Brenda McNorton reports that the Fire Marshal will resume periodic training webinars for health care facilities in 2023. She would like to know topics that would be of interest to providers....
NLRB and DOL Extend Deadline for Comments on Proposed Rules
The National Labor Relations Board and the U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division, have issued proposed rules relating to standards defining when individuals are considered employees of a given organization. The NLRB rule...