Shorts on Long Term Care Newsletter
(February 2008)
Proposed
Regulation Would Give Secretary of HHS Authority to
Review ad Reverse DAB Decisions in Nursing Facility Survey
Appeals
The News from Nicaragua
An Update on the Hogar de Ancianos
HR Corner -
Answers
from the Top: EEOC Issues Guidance for Health Care Workers
under the Americans with Disabilities Act
Shorts on Long Term Care Newsletter
(January 2007)
A Glimmer of Hope - CMS
Proposed Regulation May Ease Impact
Federal Court Finds FCA
Liability Not Covered by Nursing Home Insurance Policy
NC Recovers $20 Million, Obtains 16 Criminal
Convictions in 2007 Medicaid Fraud Cases
HR Corner - FMLA Medical
Certification Forms: Employers Have Rights Too!
Shorts on Long Term Care Newsletter
(December 2007)
CMS Publishes Frequently Asked Questions About Survey and
Enforcement Policies During Public Health Emergencies
HR Corner - IRS and States to Focus on Questionable
Employment Tax Practices
Burgess Named President-Elect of N.C. Society of Healthcare Attorneys
HIPAA Enforcement Update
CMS Publishes
Interim Final Rule with Comment on Nursing Facility Revisit
User Fees
Advance Directives Update: New “Medical Order For Scope of
Treatment” Form Delayed
Shorts on Long Term Care Newsletter
(November 2007)
I Want My Neighbors Medical Records...Now!
Arbitration on the Congressional Chopping Block
Advanced Directives Update
Survey Sanctions Routinely Reviewed by Federal
Prosecutors in North Carolina
Corridors - News for North Carolina
Hospitals from the Health Care Attorneys of Poyner & Spruill LLP
(November 2007)
Shorts on Long Term Care Newsletter
(October 2007)
Medicaid
Providers Must Certify Compliance with Deficit Reduction Act
Education Requirements in October 2007
The Law Firm with the
Big Heart - Poyner & Spruill’s Nicaragua Benefit – A Huge
Success
HR CORNER - Collective
Actions Seeking Unpaid Wages and Overtime Pay Are on the
Rise
Advanced
Directives Update
Shorts on Long Term Care Newsletter
(August/September 2007)
North Carolina General Assembly Overhauls Advance Directives
Law
HR CORNER - “I Got a
Better Offer and I’m Leaving. Oh, and I’m Taking the Whole
Staff With Me!”
Faster Than a
Speeding Bullet: Expedited CON Review Process Coming Soon
North Carolina LTC
Community Briefs
“I Swear, I Never Said
That!” Preventing Inaccurate Staff Statements in Survey
Reports
The View from the Board
Room: It’s Getting Scary Out There
Corridors - News for North Carolina
Hospitals from the Health Care Attorneys of Poyner & Spruill LLP
(August 2007)
Shorts on Long Term Care Newsletter
(June/July 2007)
Nursing Home Survey Roundup
HIPAA Privacy Rule Enforcement Delegated to OCR New North
Carolina Case in HIPAA Privacy Violations
Ensure Your Organization’s
Claims Are Not Rejected - A Primer on the National
Provider Identifier
The Indomitable Human
Spirit - Nicaragua Revisited
North Carolina LTC
Community Briefs
Keeping Tabs on Providers: A New Service Now Available from
Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank (June 20, 2007)
Shorts on Long Term Care Newsletter
(May 2007)
States Search for
Methods to Honor Advance Directives
Show Me the
Money -- Tort Reform States Big Winners in LTC Liability
Report
North
Carolina’s Health Care Enforcement -- Adding to the Arsenal
Corridors - News for North Carolina
Hospitals from the Health Care Attorneys of Poyner & Spruill LLP
(April 2007)
Shorts on Long Term Care Newsletter
(April 2007)
Remember When You Give,
You Also Get Your Share
There's a Guy at the
Door With a Badge
In
The OIG’S Crosshairs: SNF Long Term Care
Health Care Worker’s Non-Compete Covenant Held Unenforceable
(March 20, 2007)
Shorts on Long Term Care Newsletter
(March 2007)
An Ounce
of Prevention: Arbitration Agreements in Long Term Care
Admissions Agreements
North Carolina Medicaid Fraud Unit: An Interview with the
Director
Health
Care Worker’s Non-Compete Covenant Held Unenforceable
CMS
Provides Guidance on the Deficit Reduction Act – Education
Requirements – What We Know and Do Not Know (February 13, 2007)
Shorts on Long Term
Care Newsletter (February 2007)
“I Could Tell Ya,
But Then I’d Have to Kill Ya” An Update on HIPAA Privacy
Enforcement
Preventing Accidents Under F Tag 324 A Continuing Thorn in
the Side of Nursing Facility Operators
Shorts on
Long Term Care Newsletter (January 2007)
Are You Ready for
2007? The DRA’s - New Education Requirements for SNFs and
Assisted Living Communities
More
Capital, Limited Need and a Home Health Moratorium An
Interesting Equation for Assisted Living Growth in 2007
Don’t
Tell Mama, But Now I’m A Lobbyist!
Shorts on
Long Term Care Newsletter (November 2006)
Electronic
Signatures in Long Term Care Facilities
Scaling the
Mountain of Resident Privacy: Responding to Privacy Breaches
Medicaid Fraud Control Units Coming To A Facility Near You
Shorts on
Long Term Care Newsletter (September 2006)
Complaint Investigations In Nursing
Facilities – OIG Issues New Report Critical Of State Survey Agencies,
but North Carolina Fares Well
Employer Update: North Carolina’s New Minimum
Wage Law Will Impact Nursing Facilities and Assisted Living Communities
Avoiding Patient Privacy Breaches
Update: Medicaid and
Medicare Fraud Initiatives Feds Ratchet Up Medicaid Anti-Fraud
Enforcement Efforts
N.C. Court Of
Appeals Severely Limits Public Records Exception For Public
Hospitals’ Competitive Health Information (August 7, 2006)
North Carolina May Consider
Amending Its Medicaid Provider False Claims Act by Adding a Qui
Tam Provision for Whistle Blower Recovery (May 15, 2006)
Physician Ordered to Comply
with Non-Compete Covenant
(January 30, 2006)
Impact of
New Overtime Regulations on Health Care Occupations (This article
originally appeared in the
October 2004 issue of Prognosis, the newsletter published by the
North Carolina Bar Association's Health Law Section and the North
Carolina Society of Healthcare Attorneys. It is reprinted with
permission.)
OIG
Approves Specific Methodology for Hospitals' Gainsharing Arrangements with
Cardiologists and Cardiac Surgeons (April 12, 2005)
