More nursing home cuts buried deep in CMS physician fee schedule
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jul 12, 2022
Healthcare providers, including doctors and physicians who treat nursing home patients, continue to find more troubling details in the 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule.
Also in the News for Tuesday, July 12
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jul 12, 2022
HHS promotes new tool to move patients from institutional to home-based care … Hits, unfortunately, keep on coming for company that was once Florida’s largest nursing home operator … More expensive...
Thousands of nursing homes face lower Five-Star ratings with changes to staffing stars
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 11, 2022
New Five-Star scoring metrics could penalize an estimated 10% to 16% of providers who have relied on staffing strengths to drive their overall ratings.
Federal enforcement settlements with providers doubled as courts reopened
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jul 11, 2022
The federal government won $5 billion in healthcare fraud judgments last fiscal year, a staggering increase after a COVID lull.
Also in the News for Monday, July 11
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jul 11, 2022
Nursing and residential care facilities gained 8,000 jobs in June: BLS report …Pharmacists now allowed to give Paxlovid for COVID, but how much should they get paid, and how many seniors would have adverse...
Nursing homes become ‘high-risk,’ owners to be fingerprinted under new doc pay rule proposal
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 08, 2022
Nursing home owners could face heightened background screening requirements under a proposal tucked more than 1,000 pages into a huge new proposed physician pay rule released Thursday.
Clinical briefs for Thursday, July 7
Jul 07, 2022
Older adults less likely than younger ones to use telehealth … The presence of more nursing homes linked to fewer hospital readmissions … Study reveals how COVID-19 immune response may damage the brain
Hospitals with more nursing home beds nearby readmit fewer patients: study
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jul 05, 2022
Hospitals with a greater local supply of skilled nursing facilities and licensed nursing home beds are less likely to readmit patients with key conditions than hospitals in areas that lean heavily on home...
On PDPM cuts, Congress ‘stands ready’ to exert its authority — but where’s the checkbook?
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jul 05, 2022
Providers will no doubt be overjoyed to learn today that members of Congress — a whopping 40 of them! — are stepping into the fray over proposed cuts to the nursing home sector’s new payment model....
Part-time option means more juggling for infection control staff
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jul 04, 2022
While nursing homes have had six years to prepare for new infection preventionist guidance, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services revealed last week they will not necessarily need to appoint someone...