Federal Reports

The West Carroll Care Center (the Nursing Home) (operating in Oak Grove, Louisiana) did not always provide service to its residents in accordance with their care plans, as required by Federal regulations, before the residents were hospitalized with urinary tract infections. Specifically, the Nursing Home did not monitor and document residents' hydration status, monitor and document the residents' conditions, and document residents' urine appearances as their care plans required.

For inpatient claims with certain Medicare Severity Diagnosis-Related Groups (MS-DRGs), Medicare requires that beneficiaries have received 96 or more hours of mechanical ventilation. For 137 of the 200 claims we reviewed, Medicare payments to hospitals complied with Medicare requirements; the beneficiaries had received 96 or more consecutive hours of mechanical ventilation. However, for the 63 remaining claims, Medicare payments to hospitals did not comply with requirements. Consequently, the claims were assigned incorrectly to MS DRGs 207 and 870, resulting in $1.5 million of overpayments. The hospitals confirmed that these claims were improperly billed and generally attributed the errors to incorrectly counting the number of hours that beneficiaries had received mechanical ventilation or to clerical errors in selecting the appropriate procedure code.

The grant provided Tuppers Plains-Chester Water District (TPCWD) with construction funds to install a new above ground booster pump station located on State Route 681 in Reedsville, OHIO

ARC awarded the grant to provide funds for the replacement of the Bashan Booster Station with a new above grade booster station completed with 2,000 linear feet of 10 inch PVC waterline.

These grants were two multi-year series of ARC grants beginning in 2011 to support MSU in deploying the Appalachian Rural Dental Educational Partnership (ARDEP).