Mass. AG calls for increased transparency in nursing home management
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Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell
Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell is leading a coalition of 18 state AGs and the inspector general in Washington D.C. in a call for more transparent disclosures of nursing home ownership.
Co-led by Campbell and New York’s AG Letitia James, the coalition penned a letter supporting a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposal aiming to limit bad actors in the nursing home space.
The April 14 letter supports a CMS proposal to require nursing home’s to disclose their true decision makers, particularly in cases when private equity investors and real estate investment trusts have control of operations, according to a Tuesday press release from the Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General.
“When actors in the nursing home industry put profits first at the expense of people’s health and well-being, the public deserves to know who they are,” AG Campbell said in the press release.
Campbell’s co-leading of the commission comes after she issued an advisory in March detailing a variety of complaints made against nursing agencies contracting with nursing homes. Complaints included improper classification of employees and paying temporary staff over the state’s maximum rates, according to a March 29 press release from the office.
In their letter, the coalition asserts quality of care at nursing facilities operated as for-profits is often worse than at nonprofit nursing facilities. The letter specifically called out facilities whose owners include private equity investors.
In addition to Campbell and James, the coalition is comprised of the attorneys general of Arizona, California, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington.
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