Maine getting fresh round of state COVID funding … Feds must ramp up efforts against antibiotic resistance: GAO … HHS BinaxNOW test distribution program to continue after PHE ends …
Court revives criminal COVID charges against nursing home leaders
By
Kimberly Marselas
Apr 28, 2023
Two former leaders of a state-run nursing home where 76 veterans died in a single COVID outbreak must face criminal charges, despite a previous ruling that they could not be held liable for elder neglect.
Also in the News for Friday, April 28
By
Kimberly Marselas
Apr 28, 2023
Medicare overpaid $128 million by duplicating skilled nursing, other payments for VA beneficiaries … House panel leans on CMS to reverse its coverage of Alzheimer’s treatment … Rhode Island provider...
Nursing homes have to fight for pay protections in Medicare Advantage rule: expert
By
Kimberly Marselas
Apr 27, 2023
Providers must play an active role in stopping aggressive Medicare Advantage practices that have for years limited access to skilled nursing care, a top managed care expert warned administrators gathered...
Cost, conversion of long-stay residents fuel resistance to 3-day stay waiver
By
Kimberly Marselas
Apr 26, 2023
A new study of a key COVID-19 waiver backs up longstanding concerns that removing a hospital stay as a requirement for Medicare-covered nursing home care would shift too many long-term residents to skilled...
CMS eager to leverage new nursing home ownership data, leader confirms
By
Kimberly Marselas
Apr 26, 2023
A top Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services enforcement official said Tuesday that the agency is eager to use data collected under a proposed ownership transparency rule to “scrutinize how certain...
When Mark Parkinson talks, his voice speaks for thousands. As president and CEO of the American Health Care Association / National Center for Assisted Living, he represents more than 14,000 nursing homes...
Also in the News for Wednesday, April 26
By
Kimberly Marselas
Apr 26, 2023
Supreme Court expected to clarify ‘ambiguous’ False Claims standard … Most older patients embrace move toward deprescribing, poll finds … Facility’s careful monitoring results in opioid diversion...
Staring down the Alzheimer’s diagnosis
By
Kimberly Marselas
Apr 25, 2023
Alzheimer’s disease may be among the most-feared diagnoses for people of a certain age, one that for many has been instantaneously life-altering. But today’s patients will force us to see it through...
CMS leader balks on broader use of antipsychotic drugs
By
Kimberly Marselas
Apr 25, 2023
One of the nation’s top nursing home regulators is opposed to broadening exclusions for the use of antipsychotic medications, he told attendees of a national conference Friday.