McKnight’s Senior Living November 17, 2023
Assisted living communities were among the healthcare settings associated with incidents of potential abuse or neglect of Medicare beneficiaries in an audit of claims data, prompting a review of data to identify patterns and improve reporting of such incidents.
The Department of Health & Human Services Office of the Inspector General released a report with results earlier this month, following up on a 2019 report and providing recommendations for actions the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services can take.
The audit identified 30,258 claims from January 2019 through December 2020 that contained diagnosis codes indicating the treatment of injuries potentially caused by abuse or neglect. The data showed that almost 7% of potential abuse and neglect incidents (2,320 incidents)...