tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2006 Issue 1

LONG-TERM CARE: OIG Work Plan Puts More Scrutiny On LTC Facilities

Deficiency trends the top priority of OIG plan.A survey strike against you will be an increasingly costly blow. That's the message federal regulators sent to nursing home providers in the latest annual Work Plan from the HHS Office of Inspector General. In spite of reports of gains in nursing home quality in recent years, survey deficiencies are up since 1998, explains Nancy Augustine of LTCQ Inc. in Lexington, MA. And the OIG is well aware of the increase. The Work Plan specifically cites this rise in deficiencies. Why are there more deficiencies if there is some evidence...

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