With agencies dueling to regulate nursing homes, aligning priorities for a strategic compliance program may be more challenging than ever.

While providers aren’t required to follow OIG recommendations, a compliance program based on their guidance can spare ...

In my previous article about the Nursing Home Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement guidelines (QAPI), published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, I discussed my delight in ...

plant social worker with Banner Good Samaritan Transplant Center and Advanced Liver Disease in Phoenix. He is a member of NN&I’s Editorial Advisory Board. In 1984, The National Organ Transplant Act ...