Monica Wallace
Subscribe to Monica Wallace's PostsMonica A. Wallace focuses her practice on complex regulatory and transactional counseling to healthcare organizations, including health systems, hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, physician groups, dental providers, integrated delivery systems, academic medical centers, DMEPOS and pharmaceutical manufacturers and suppliers, home health agencies, and venture capital and private equity firms and their health-related portfolio companies. Read Monica Wallace's full bio.
Finalized Nursing Staff Standards Will Impact Most Long-Term Care Facilities
By Gregory Fosheim, Debra Curtis and Monica Wallace on May 28, 2024
Posted In Employee Benefits, Health and Welfare Plans
On April 22, 2024, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a final rule that will require long-term care facilities (LTCFs) to satisfy minimum nurse staffing standards with the goal of addressing patient quality of care and safety concerns. The final rule is anticipated to result in approximately 80% of LTCFs needing to...
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CMS Seeks Provider and Stakeholder Feedback on First National Directory of Healthcare Providers and Services
By Emily J. Cook, Monica Wallace, Carole M. Becker and Vincent Leahey on Jan 3, 2023
Posted In Digital Health
CMS is soliciting feedback on the creation of the first national directory of healthcare providers and services (NDH), which would contain information on healthcare providers and services across the country. CMS states that the NDH would improve and support interoperability throughout the healthcare sector for payers and providers while making it easier for patients to...
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Update to Fraud Self-Disclosure Rules for Regulated Healthcare Entities
By Tony Maida, Monica Wallace and Moyosore Koya on Jan 6, 2022
Posted In Employee Benefits, Health and Welfare Plans
On November 8, 2021, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued an update to the Health Care Fraud Self-Disclosure Protocol (SDP). This update revises and renames the Provider Self-Disclosure Protocol last updated by OIG in 2013. The changes are mostly procedural in nature and update the SDP...
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