Seven couples at a Massachusetts nursing home renewed their vows during individual ceremonies last week, part of an annual effort to honor lasting love.
Michigan inching toward privatization of long-term care
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 21, 2018
Michigan is laying the groundwork to privatize its $2.8 billion Medicaid nursing home and long-term care services.
Nursing home janitor charged after threatening to shoot co-workers
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 20, 2018
A janitor at a county-owned nursing home in upstate New York threatened to gun down two co-workers, the sheriff said Friday.
OIG: Medicare needs to do more to prevent fraud and waste related to chiropractic care
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 20, 2018
Previous controls have not done enough to reduce fraud and waste in connection to chiropractic care for Medicare patients, according to a review issued by a federal watchdog Friday.
Supreme Court weighing limits on privacy-breach lawsuits
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 20, 2018
In an announcement expected today, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether to accept a case that could narrow how “harm” is defined in data-breach cases.
EEOC takes on provider over flu shot firing
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 16, 2018
A healthcare provider in Owosso, MI, violated federal law by rescinding a job offer to a transcriptionist who wanted a religious accommodation to avoid a flu shot, the EEOC said in a lawsuit this week.
New guidelines add fecal transplant to C. diff treatment recommendations
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 16, 2018
Fecal transplants should be considered for patients with recurrent cases of Clostridium difficile whose symptoms cannot be addressed by antibiotics, the Infectious Diseases Society of America said in new...
Medicare pays for opioids over alternatives, lawmakers say
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 16, 2018
Lawmakers took a long-standing industry complaint to the Department of Health and Human Services this week, telling Secretary Alex Azar that Medicare and Medicaid favor opioid prescription over non-addictive...
Skilled nursing providers would lose out under Trump’s revised payment system
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 14, 2018
A plan to lump together payments to all post-acute providers would be a budget cut dressed up as reform, providers said after reviewing the Department of Health and Human Services budget proposal.
Some veterans who want aid-in-dying will have to move first
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 14, 2018
Though terminally ill California residents can legally take lethal drugs to end their lives, the state’s Veterans Homes have announced they will move any residents who want to try.