Christine Parkins Johnson
Subscribe to Christine Parkins Johnson's PostsChristine Parkins Johnson focuses her practice on complex regulatory and transactional counseling to health care organizations, such as health systems, hospitals, physician groups, long-term care facilities, pharmacies and other health care providers. Christine's regulatory practice focuses on health facility licensure and permits; Medicare and Medicaid enrollment; reimbursement and billing; survey/certification and accreditation; hospital governance and medical staff issues; and licensure under California's Knox Keene Act. Christine also has particular experience with hospital system and multi-state pharmacy changes in ownership. Christine's transactional practice is focused on joint ventures and mergers and acquisitions. Read Christine Parkins Johnson's full bio.
OIG Issues Report on Medicare’s ‘2-Midnight Hospital Rule’
By Christine Parkins Johnson, Emily J. Cook and Sandra M. DiVarco on Dec 30, 2016
Posted In Uncategorized
On December 19, 2016, the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) posted a report examining the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS’s) “2-Midnight Rule.” The OIG concluded that although the number of inpatient stays decreased and the number of outpatient stays increased under the 2-Midnight Rule, Medicare paid...
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