New Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM) driving questions about therapy
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Kimberly Marselas
May 02, 2018
Providers on Tuesday began drilling down into the details of the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ new Patient Driven Payment Model, questioning how the 4-day-old reimbursement formula will...
Officer Oliver Davis — age 6 — gets tough on nursing home residents for being ‘too cute’
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Kimberly Marselas
May 02, 2018
When Oliver Davis goes to visit his great-grandmother at Westchester Village of Lenexa, he comes bearing flowers — dozens and dozens of flowers.
Voters might get Medicaid brush-off in another state — if they put candidate in governor’s office
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Kimberly Marselas
May 02, 2018
Following the lead of Maine’s governor, Idaho gubernatorial candidate Raul Labrador (R) has said he would consider working to overturn a voter-passed initiative if voters choose him as governor and...
Dialysis or hospice? Medicare policy that forces kidney disease patients to choose means only 20% get...
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Kimberly Marselas
May 02, 2018
End-of-life care is “categorically different” for patients receiving hemodialysis than for those with other terminal illnesses, a group of doctors said Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine.
3 years for home health owner who inflated hours and claimed to care for SNF residents and the dead in...
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 30, 2018
A former home health company owner accused of defrauding Medicaid and the Internal Revenue Service out of more than $2 million was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison.
No sign language interpreter for two years? Deaf former resident can sue nursing home
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 30, 2018
A federal judge ruled last week that a former nursing home patient who is deaf can pursue a discrimination case against the facility where she lived for more than two years because staff refused to provide...
BREAKING NEWS: CMS gives skilled nursing 2.4% Medicare pay raise, unveils another new resident classification...
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 27, 2018
In a flurry of activity late Friday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced an $850 million pay raise for skilled nursing facilities for fiscal 2019 that comes along with major simplifications...
Trump expected to hit Medicaid, Medicare with spending cuts package
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 27, 2018
Congressional leaders say the Trump administration is preparing to propose up to $25 billion in federal spending cuts, which will hit Medicaid and other safety net programs.
Federal court allows civil rights case against public nursing home to proceed
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 27, 2018
A Pennsylvania judge has ruled the daughter of a former nursing home resident can sue a publicly owned facility for civil rights violations that contributed to the mother’s death.
Ratings galaxies apart: Government’s Nursing Home Compare gravitates toward clinical while Yelp...
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 26, 2018
Social media users who rate nursing homes often do so using more service-oriented criteria than government officials, say academic researchers who took a deep look at how Yelp reviews of nursing homes...