Health Care Reform Update
VHCA (09/3/10)
AHCA/NCAL continues to update the Health Care Reform Resource Center. Listed are some of the most recent topics updated on the site: Analysis/Impact/Policy Papers - Assisted Living Part D: Elimination of Cost Sharing for Certain Dual Eligible Individuals (§3309);
- HIT: National Demonstration Projects on Culture Change and Use of Information Technology (§6114);
- Medicaid: Newly Eligible Medicaid Recipients Under Health Care Reform and Federal Matching Funds (§2001);
- Medicare: Independent Payment Advisory Board (§3403);
- Transparency: Nationwide Program for Background checks on LTC Facility Employees (6201);
- Transparency: Required Standardized Complaint Form for Nursing Facilities (§6105)
- Transparency: Required Compliance and Ethics Programs for Nursing Facilities (§6102)
- Transparency: Required Dementia and Abuse Training for Facility Staff §(6121)
Guidance and Regulation - HCBS: CMS issues guidance on targeting HCBS to certain Medicaid recipients
- Medicaid: Limiting of Prohibiting Payment for Health Care-Acquired Conditions
- Medicaid: CMS Releases Guidance Related to Medicaid Overpayments
- Transparency: AHCA submits comment to CMS on Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Civil Money Penalties.
- Transparency: CMS publishes Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Civil Money Penalties
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