tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2004 Issue 31

Five Steps For Winning The Regulatory Battle

 What SNFs need to know now.To protect themselves from compliance problems, SNFs should take these steps to audit their own quality of care and policy compliance: 1. Recognize a need. "The first step for many nursing homes is to recognize that their [business] interests need protection," says Reta Underwood, president of Long Term Care Consultants, Inc. in Louisville, KY. Many nursing homes may have a false sense of security, agrees Joanne Lax, an attorney with Dykema Gossett in Bloomfield Hill, MI. Even though long-term care is known as a highly regulated industry, enforcement of those regulations...

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