The perpetrators of a $900 million healthcare scam targeted nursing homes and other facilities where seniors lived, looking for Medicare patients whom they could dupe into receiving expensive wound care...
Also in the News for Monday, July 1
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 30, 2024
All adults over 75 should get RSV vaccine before fall, CDC recommends … Experts call on CMS to reevaluate its value-based initiatives in House hearing … AHCA announces 2024 Silver Quality Award
BREAKING: Supreme Court’s Chevron ruling could defang CMS
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 28, 2024
The Supreme Court this morning threw out a long-standing doctrine that has given regulatory agencies, including the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, broad discretion to set rules for the entities...
Family can’t sue nursing home after resident’s undiagnosed COVID led to husband’s death
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 27, 2024
The family of a former nursing home patient cannot sue the facility or a doctor there for discharging her while a COVID-19 test was pending, even though she soon passed the virus onto her husband, who...
Also in the News for Friday, June 28, 2024
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 27, 2024
CBO estimates killing nursing home staffing rule would save more than $22 billion over a decade … Unions, patient advocates call staffing mandate “viable standard under current labor market conditions”...
Judge likely to block tool used by PointClickCare to keep competitor out of EHR system
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 26, 2024
A federal judge is expected to issue a preliminary ruling next week in a case that pits two post-acute technology providers against each other and raises major questions about data safety and interoperability.
Show Me State program with 100% success may show nation’s nursing homes how to lower rehospitalizations,...
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Kimberly Marselas
Kristen Fischer
Jun 26, 2024
A state-level program to improve the quality of care and lower avoidable hospitalizations in Missouri nursing homes has worked so well that policymakers are pointing to it as a possible national solution.
Also in the News for Thursday, June 27, 2024
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 26, 2024
Major hospital group keeps pressure on Congress over nursing home staffing rule … Consumer Voice publishes guide on nursing home retaliation … Fitch predicts ‘deteriorating’ outlook for CCRCs will...
The push for partnership stops here
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 26, 2024
When talking shop with healthcare wonks, it’s hard to avoid hearing the word “partnership.”
Also in the News for Wednesday, June 26, 2024
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 25, 2024
Ignite Medical Resorts breaks ground on its first new construction since 2020 … New CMS tool designed to help providers improve Medicare claims … IRS plans to deny billions of dollars in ‘clearly...