Hospice Insights: The Law and Beyond
Tune in to Husch Blackwell’s hospice podcast with Meg Pekarske for conversations with industry innovators and fundamentals for navigating hospice law. In our commitment to monitoring updates and fostering learning, each episode delivers essential information clients need for best solutions in this changing healthcare sector.
- Update frequency
- every 15 days
- Average duration
- 30 minutes
- Episodes
- 135
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Beyond Regulations: Hospice Business Contracts and Contract Disputes
Hospices’ unique regulatory and business environment impacts how they contract with and relate to other private entities. In this episode, Husch Blackwell’s Meg Pekarske, Bryan Nowicki and Jake Harri…
Hospices and The False Claims Act: Proposed Amendment Would Increase Liability Risk
Hospices and the False Claims Act Series
The False Claims Act (FCA) is the government’s most serious weapon to combat fraud in the healthcare community, and hospices are increasingly the target of FCA…
Strategic Restructuring for the Future, Think Before You Sign: Five Key Insights for VBID and Managed Care Contracts
Strategic Restructuring for the Future: Exploring How Hospices Are Using Joint Ventures, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Service Diversification to Transform
Change, transformation, disruption: whatever…
COVID-19 Hospice How-To Series: Federal COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Rules - Breaking Down What They Mean for Hospices
What is the latest on vaccine mandates? In this episode, Husch Blackwell's Meg Pekarske is joined by colleague Tom O’Day to discuss the newly released OSHA and CMS rules. They'll uncover the surprise…
Hospice Audit Series: Insights for Winning at Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) Hearings, Part II
Hospice Audit Series
Audits are a fact of life for hospices—it’s not a matter of “if” a hospice will be audited, but “when.” The alphabet soup of audits has expanded, from UPICs to SMRCs, CPIs, TPEs a…
Hospice Audit Series: Insights for Winning at Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) Hearings, Part I
Hospice Audit Series
Audits are a fact of life for hospices—it’s not a matter of “if” a hospice will be audited, but “when.” The alphabet soup of audits has expanded, from UPICs to SMRCs, CPIs, TPEs a…
Drumroll Please: The Latest on HIS Appeals
In this episode, Husch Blackwell's Meg Pekarske chats with colleagues Bryan Nowicki and Jacob Harris, who share what happened with the Hospice Item Set (HIS) noncompliance letters. You have to listen…
Strategic Restructuring for the Future, Putting a Plan Into Action: A Conversation With Gloria Brooks on Building End-of-Life Partnerships
Strategic Restructuring for the Future: Exploring How Hospices Are Using Joint Ventures, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Service Diversification to Transform
Change, transformation, disruption: whatever…
Hospice Audit Series: A Beginning and an End from CMS - TPE Resumes While QIC Demonstration Ends
Hospice Audit Series
Audits are a fact of life for hospices—it’s not a matter of “if” a hospice will be audited, but “when.” The alphabet soup of audits has expanded, from UPICs to SMRCs, CPIs, TPEs a…
Parsing Out Changes in the Election Addendum Made by the Final Hospice Wage Index Rule
By October 1, 2021, hospices will need to update their election addendum form to address a change made by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in the final rule. The government has prov…
Governance Series: Common Board Challenges and Tips for Dealing with Them
After exploring the attributes of a well-functioning board, in this episode we delve into common practices and tendencies that can limit board performance. Whether it be factioning, side conversation…
An Unexpected Flurry: HIS Noncompliance Letters Have Many Scratching Their Heads
In this episode, Husch Blackwell’s Meg Pekarske and Jacob Harris unpack what may be behind the Hospice Item Set (HIS) noncompliance letters that many hospices believe they have erroneously received. …
Staying Prepared: Hospices and the False Claims Act, Part III - Success in False Claims Act Lawsuits
Hospice and the False Claims Act Series
The False Claims Act (FCA) is the government’s most serious weapon to combat fraud in the healthcare community, and hospices are increasingly the target of FCA …
Strategic Restructuring for the Future | Succeeding in Value-Based Care: How Hospices Can Collaborate Through Network Models
Strategic Restructuring for the Future: Exploring How Hospices Are Using Joint Ventures, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Service Diversification to Transform
Change, transformation, disruption: whatever…
COVID-19 Hospice How-To Series: New Deadlines Announced for Reporting on and Using Your Provider Relief Fund Payments
After nearly half a year of silence, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services finally provided direction on when providers need to submit Provider Relief Fund (“PRF”) compliance reports. In t…
Privacy Series: HIPAA Breaches - When It Is, and When It Is Not a Breach
Privacy Series
In this series, we will explore all things privacy. From HIPAA breaches, to updates on the information blocking rule, to privacy enforcement trends, hospices will learn what they need t…
Hospice Innovators: A Conversation with Dr. Kathleen Benton, CEO of Hospice Savannah
In today’s episode of Hospice Insights, Husch Blackwell’s Meg Pekarske shares her recent wide-ranging conversation with Dr. Kathleen Benton of Hospice Savannah, where they explore how good business p…
Staying Prepared: Hospices and the False Claims Act, Part II - Successful Approaches to Government Investigations
Hospice and the False Claims Act Series
The False Claims Act (FCA) is the government’s most serious weapon to combat fraud in the healthcare community, and hospices are increasingly the target of FCA …
Hospice Audit Series: How are Hospices Faring at ALJ Hearings?
Hospice Audit Series
Audits are a fact of life for hospices—it’s not a matter of “if” a hospice will be audited, but “when.” The alphabet soup of audits has expanded, from UPICs to SMRCs, CPIs, TPEs a…
Hospice Audit Series: CMS Program Integrity Audits Are Back!
Hospice Audit Series
Audits are a fact of life for hospices—it’s not a matter of “if” a hospice will be audited, but “when.” The alphabet soup of audits has expanded, from UPICs to SMRCs, CPIs, TPEs a…