NC Medicaid expansion would remove certificate-of-need rules … NY officials still holding off on staffing mandate fines … Medicare Advantage yielded strongest margins for insurers, study finds …...
Providers pepper CMS with schizophrenia questions; agency cautions on MDS changes
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 03, 2023
Nursing home operators are grappling with audits targeting their use of schizophrenia diagnoses, a bounty of questions made clear during a national forum Thursday.
Also in the News for Friday, March 3
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 03, 2023
CMS posts state-by-state timeline for unwinding public health emergency Medicaid renewals … Some states aggressively target families for Medicaid repayment after nursing home residents die … To boost...
On immigration, are these two unicorns or realists?
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 02, 2023
Govs. Eric Holcomb (IN) and Spencer Cox (UT), two Republican leaders in decidedly Republican states, swear they’re not unicorns.
As liability risk climbs, operators in some states face added consequences: study
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 02, 2023
Skilled nursing and senior living liability losses have accelerated in both frequency and total cost since 2016, with per-incident costs rising nearly 12% per-year in that time period, a new national benchmarking...
State threatens under-occupied facilities with another rate cut
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 02, 2023
A new bill threatens to cut administrative payments to Connecticut nursing homes that cannot maintain 90% occupancy, even as the national skilled nursing average hovers around 75%.
Also in the News for Thursday, March 2
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 02, 2023
Fresh class action suit targets another veterans’ home over COVID failures … CA legislature makes second attempt at requiring 85% of Medicare spending go to direct care … Effort to repeal Washington’s...
Also in the News for Wednesday, March 1
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 01, 2023
Long-term care CEO compensation averages $555,340: report … . HHS vows to speed up complaint-driven healthcare investigations … Legionnaires found in recent Pennsylvania nursing home resident …...
NY nursing home landlord, former operators to pay $7.2M in False Claims settlement
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 28, 2023
The landlord of an upstate New York nursing home and the unlicensed operators who ran the facility for years before its 2021 closure have agreed to pay nearly $7.2 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations.
Nursing home wins right to arbitrate, but case reveals common agreement weakness
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 28, 2023
An Illinois nursing home can avoid a court battle over a personal injury claim, thanks to an appellate court’s finding that its contract “clearly” gave its arbitrator the right to decide which cases...