tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2022 Issue Q1

Industry Notes: OIG Begins Investigating Nursing Home COVID Vaccination Compliance

During the pandemic, long-term care facilities struggled to care for the nation’s most vulnerable patients. Sadly, the death toll was disproportionately high in nursing homes, and the feds are looking at the correlation between low COVID-19 vaccination rates and high death rates. Under the recently added Work Plan Active Item W-00-22-31560, the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) will investigate the COVID-19 vaccination status of nursing homes’ staff. Why? “Data reported by nursing homes to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Healthcare Safety Network identified that COVID-19 infections among nursing home residents were higher...

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