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Quality Indicator Survey Needs Improvement

Ray Mullman
March 21, 2012 12:00

McKnight's had an article about thenew GAO Report showing that The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services need to make serious improvements in the tools it uses to evaluate the quality of nursing home care.  The Government Accountability Office conducted an investigation to determine...

U.S. Government Accountability Office Report

Brenda T. Redfern
March 15, 2012 16:20

The U.S. Government Accountability Office ("GAO") has recently issued a report setting forth statistics for bid protests for the fiscal years 2007 through 2011. See GAO Report here. The report also contains a synopsis of a number of recent notable GAO decisions on various issues including...

GAO Examines Nursing Home Quality Survey Implementation

Debra A. McCurdy
March 14, 2012 16:50

The GAO has issued a report entitled “Nursing Home Quality: CMS Should Improve Efforts to Monitor Implementation of the Quality Indicator Survey.” CMS developed the Quality Indicator Survey (QIS) to improve the efficiency, accuracy, and consistency of the nursing home survey process....

GAO Reviews Research on Generic Drug Savings

Debra A. McCurdy
March 14, 2012 16:42

In a recent report, “Drug Pricing: Research on Savings from Generic Drug Use,” the GAO reviewed studies on savings associated with generic drug use in the U.S. In brief, the studies had mixed conclusions regarding the effect of using generics. While some studies point to substantial...

The staff, a so-so law, but no budget: the state of Illinois Preneed Oversight

Bill Stalter
January 30, 2012 19:36

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released its latest report on the state of state regulation of the death care industry.  As it did in 2003, the GAO selected a handful of states to review in depth, and Illinois was one of those states for 2011 report.  The Illinois review...