A U.S. District Court judge accepted the Department of Health and Human Services’ plan to better explain grounds of the historic Jimmo settlement — with a few added tweaks of her own.
HHS was charged with better educating providers and beneficiaries about the lack of a “maintenance standard” for therapy patients after falling far short of terms of a 2013 settlement agreement with aggrieved beneficiaries.
The new plan requires HHS to create a website on the settlement, complete with language stating that improvement is not a necessity for Medicare therapy coverage, a stipulation added by U.S. District Court Chief Judge Christina Reiss.
The judge also added that a national provider conference call must be held to clear up questions about the case.
HHS must implement the newly approved plan by Sept. 4.
From the March 01, 2017 Issue of McKnight's Long-Term Care News
