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CMS Offering Millions In Funding To States To Move People With Disabilities From Institutions To Community-Based Settings.

Disability Scoop (9/25, Diament) reports officials with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) “are looking to ‘jump-start efforts’ to move people with disabilities from institutions to community-based settings and they’re offering up millions of dollars to do so.” The agency “said this week that up to $165 million is available to states for a program called Money Follows the Person.” CMS Administrator Seema Verma said, “The tragic devastation wrought by the coronavirus on nursing home residents exposes America’s overreliance on institutional long-term care facilities. ...

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Dem report: Medicare chief used fed money to bolster image

WASHINGTON – Private consultants to the federal official who oversees Medicare billed taxpayers almost $6 million in less than two years to bolster her personal image, including efforts to win awards, place her on lists of powerful women and arrange meetings with influential people, a report by congressional Democrats said Thursday. The consultants, many with Republican Party ties, billed taxpayers up to $380 per hour on work largely aimed at polishing the profile of Medicare administrator Seema Verma, the investigators wrote.

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CMS Launches Updated Care Compare Website.

Modern Healthcare (9/3, Castellucci, Subscription Publication) reports on Thursday, CMS launched an updated Care Compare website “that consolidates its eight online consumer tools to one platform” in an effort “to give users a more streamlined experience using its platform, called Compare tools.” CMS Administrator Seema Verma said on Wednesday that the new design will “make it as helpful as possible to users.” The site is available at Medicare.gov. FierceHealthcare (9/3, King) reports, “The site combines the previously existing sites that allow consumers to comparison shop based on the quality metrics for hospitals, nursing homes, home health providers, dialysis facilities, long-term care hospitals, inpatient rehabilitation

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Coverage about COVID-19 in Facilities

ABC News (8/31, Freger) reports that “with strict limits still in place on the ability of elderly residents to leave facilities, and prohibitions on friends and relatives coming inside, the looming 2020 elections are presenting the nation’s 15,000 nursing homes with an unprecedented clash of priorities – balancing between protecting public health and securing the foundational American right to vote.” Advocates and experts “told ABC News they’re concerned that no comprehensive plan has been presented yet to ensure” nursing home residents “can safely cast their ballots.” CMS Administrator Seema Verma “told ABC News last week the agency is in the middle of looking into efforts nursing homes are devising to ensure residents can vote in the

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New York Post (8/24, Nelson) report, “The Trump administration will unveil mandatory coronavirus testing and reporting rules for nursing homes this week to prevent a recurrence of the tragic death toll in New York, The Post has learned.” The “rules require that nursing homes offer tests to patients if anyone in the facility contracts COVID-19 or exhibits symptoms.

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Trump Signs Executive Order To Expand Telehealth Services In Rural Areas.

AP (8/3, Alonso-Zaldivar) reports “the Trump Administration is taking steps to give telehealth a broader role under Medicare, with an executive order that serves as a call for Congress to make doctor visits via personal technology a permanent fixture of the program.” The recently signed order “will also set in motion an experiment under which hospitals in rural communities could receive a more predictable stream of Medicare payments in exchange for delivering better performance on certain measures of quality.” CMS Administrator Seema Verma “predicted telehealth will become the modern equivalent of the house call.” She said, “In an earlier age, doctors commonly made house calls. ...

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Coverage about COVID-19 in Facilities

Arizona Daily Star (7/12), CMS Administrator Seema Verma explains that CMS “has taken a series of aggressive actions over the past several months to protect nursing home residents against the spread of this new coronavirus.” Verma explains that starting “in May, CMS required nursing homes that participate in Medicare and Medicaid to inform residents, their families, and their representatives within 12 hours of when a single COVID-19 case is reported, or when three or more residents or staffers develop respiratory symptoms within 72 hours of each other.” The agency “recently provided state and local officials with recommendations on phased re-openings of nursing homes in their areas, including when and under what circumstances to allow

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Analysis Of Medicare Data Indicates Blacks More Likely To Be Hospitalized For COVID-19.

Washington Post (6/22, Goldstein) reports that income is a powerful “force along with race in determining who among the nation’s vulnerable, older population has been infected with the novel coronavirus, according to a federal analysis that lays bare stark disparities in the pandemic’s toll.” The article says these findings “echo the commonly understood pattern that black Americans are more likely to test positive for and to be hospitalized for covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, than other racial and ethnic groups.” However, “they also point to the role of poverty as the pandemic has sped through U.S.

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Coverage about COVID-19 in Facilities

AP (6/15, Alonso-Zaldivar) reports “a grim blame game with partisan overtones is breaking out over COVID-19 deaths among nursing home residents, a tiny slice of the population that represents a shockingly high proportion of Americans who have perished in the pandemic.” The piece says “the Trump administration has been pointing to a segment of the industry – facilities with low federal ratings for infection control – and to some Democratic governors who required nursing homes to take recovering coronavirus patients.” Facilities “that followed federal infection control guidelines were largely able to contain the virus, asserts Seema Verma, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS, which sets standards and pays the bills.

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Medicare data: Blacks likelier to be hospitalized for COVID

WASHINGTON – Blacks were nearly four times more likely than whites to be hospitalized with COVID-19 among people with Medicare, the government said Monday.

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Grim blame game over COVID deaths in besieged nursing homes

WASHINGTON – A grim blame game with partisan overtones is breaking out over COVID-19 deaths among nursing home residents, a tiny slice of the population that represents a shockingly high proportion of Americans who have perished in the pandemic.The Trump administration has been pointing to a segment of the industry — facilities with low federal ratings for infection control — and to some Democratic governors who required nursing homes to take recovering coronavirus patients. Homes that followed federal infection control guidelines were largely able to contain the virus, asserts Seema Verma, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS, which sets standards and pays the bills.

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Nursing homes to face enforcement action for swiping coronavirus stimulus checks from seniors

warned nursing homes that they will face repercussions for unlawfully seizing economic impact payments from seniors.In a post on Twitter, Seema Verma, administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, said care centers engaging in this behavior will be subject to enforcement action.RELATED: ‘Not just a horror story’: FTC says some nursing homes are taking residents' stimulus checksLast month, the Federal Trade Commission told consumers they should be on the lookout for nursing homes and senior living facilities that were requiring residents to sign over the payments as a means to pay for services.The payments are not able to be counted as income or resources for the purpose of federal benefit programs, like Medicaid.On Monday,

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Coverage about COVID-19 in Facilities

ABC News (4/24, Pecorin, Park, Mosk, Freger) reports that “the number of nursing home residents who have succumbed to the novel coronavirus in the United States has surpassed 10,000, a new survey of state data compiled by ABC News has found.” The “surge in deaths, accounting for about 20% of all coronavirus fatalities in the nation, comes as nursing homes across the country continue to struggle for effective strategies to fight the virus, which can quickly overwhelm the communal settings once it enters.” CMS Administrator Seema Verma “told ABC News in an interview Thursday that she believes the administration has had a ‘very strong response’ to the crisis.” She said, “Our administration has acted very early on to make sure that we’re doing

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Donald Trump might appoint Indian-American Seema Verma as new health secretary

NEW YORK : US President Donald Trump may replace Health and Human Services secretary Alex Azar and Seema Verma, the head of government health insurance programmes, is one of those under consideration to succeed him, according to media reports.

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Feds to track, share information on nursing home outbreaks

NEW YORK – Calling nursing homes ground zero of the coronavirus crisis, federal officials said Monday they plan to start tracking and publicly sharing information on infections and deaths in such facilities to help spot trends and early signs the virus is spreading in communities.

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Coronavirus Doubly Impacting Nursing Homes By Sickening Residents, Sparse Staff.

The Wall Street Journal (3/26, Mathews, Kamp, Subscription Publication) reports nursing homes in particular have been hit hard by the coronavirus, as both vulnerable residents and workforces already under pressure have become sick. Federal regulators say they are aware of the issue.

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Colorado Officials Refusing To Provide Details About Outbreaks Of Novel Coronavirus In Healthcare Facilities.

The Denver Post (3/24, Finley) reports “Colorado public health officials have revealed they know of at least five ‘outbreaks’ of the new coronavirus inside residential and other non-hospital health care facilities in the state and have notified people who may have been exposed.” However, “for two days officials have declined to give details, such as how many people may have been exposed or where the facilities are located, despite rising concerns about clusters that can accelerate person-to-person spread of the virus.” These Colorado facilities “rank among at least 146 nursing homes nationwide where federal authorities on Monday said coronavirus cases are confirmed.” CMS Administrator Seema Verma said on Monday, “Unless you are asked to go

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Central Florida providers react to expansion of telehealth amid coronavirus pandemic

ORLANDO, Fla. – As the coronavirus continues to make its way across the country, government leaders are not only looking for ways to stop its spread, but also coming up with solutions that will free up space in hospitals and doctors’ offices for those who need it the most.

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To keep seniors safe at home, Medicare expands telemedicine

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Medicare said Tuesday it will immediately expand coverage for telemedicine nationwide to help seniors with health problems stay home to avoid the coronavirus.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0