On January 28, HUD issued new guidance, FHEO-2020-1, to clarify “how housing providers can comply with the Fair Housing Act when assessing a person’s request to have an animal in housing to provide assistance because of a disability.”
What Is Required?
CDL holders, and their employers, must register and report on their drug and alcohol testing violations through the new Clearinghouse. Specifically, CDL holders and their employers must report drug and alcohol program violations, negative return-to-duty (RTD) substance test results, and successful completion of a driver’s follow-up testing plan.
What Do I (as an Employer) Have to Do?
If you employ CDL drivers, you must:
Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM)
Taking into account, the increased complexity of the new payment system, LeadingAge has made three new payment tools available for organizations to help in budgeting and planning for PDGM impacts.
The tool includes commonly used therapy procedure codes that skilled nursing facilities and others are paid for under the physician fee schedule for the period of January 1 through December 31, 2020.
As in the recent past, MedPAC continues to offer payment reductions as recommendations for home health, hospice, and skilled nursing facilities.
The committee's jurisdiction includes Medicare and Medicaid, giving it responsibility for nursing home payment systems at the federal level as well as the oversight system under OBRA '87. The committee's Chair and Ranking Member, Senators Charles Grassley (R-IA) and Ron Wyden (D-OR), both have long-standing interest in nursing home issues.
Contact: Lisa Sanders
lsanders@leadingage.org 202-508-9407
Payment Update and PDGM
This final rule delivers on a number of statutory imperatives from the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018. They include:
The proposed rule would revise the disparate impact standard under the Fair Housing Act (FHA). Disparate impact is a legal doctrine under the FHA which states a policy may be considered discriminatory if it has a disproportionate “adverse impact” against any group based on race, national origin, color, religion, sex, familial status, or disability when there is no legitimate, non-discriminatory business need for the policy.
Recent regulatory and financial developments:
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