Advanced products that assist in tissue rebuilding and expanded wound closure capability are giving providers more treatment options.
Analysis: An insurance model to get excited about
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Liza Berger
Jan 05, 2020
At the first-ever long-term care population health conference, providers learn that I-SNPs offer long-awaited opportunities to control their own fate when it comes to pay and quality.
Marquis’ Phil Fogg is living life in the fast lane
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Liza Berger
Jan 05, 2020
From the time he was a boy, Phil Fogg, CEO of Marquis Companies, wanted to be like Dad.
Nursing homes in New York grapple with Medicaid reimbursement reduction
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Liza Berger
Jan 02, 2020
Nursing homes and other healthcare providers in New York woke up to a 1% Medicaid payment cut in the New Year.
The time is ripe: Nominate a colleague for a McKnight’s Women of Distinction award
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Liza Berger
Jan 02, 2020
Looking for a New Year’s resolution? Here’s one: nominate an exceptional female colleague for a McKnight’s Women of Distinction award.
Thanks to robust interest, second I-SNP conference tentatively scheduled for later this year
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Liza Berger
Jan 02, 2020
2020 promises to be a busy one for the popular institutional special plans, or I-SNPs, a co-chair of the American Health Care Association’s Population Health Management Council recently suggested. On...
Montana woman who embezzled funds from nursing home resident ordered to do time, pay restitution
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Liza Berger
Jan 02, 2020
A nursing home business manager in Montana helped to alert authorities to a Miles City woman who was embezzling funds from a resident and since has been ordered to pay more than $94,000 in restitution...
Court rules that new nursing home owner must deal with union when changing nurses’ pay, benefits
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Liza Berger
Jan 02, 2020
A recent court ruling in New Jersey regarding a new owner that attempted to change nurses’ status deals a blow to operators. The Third Circuit ruled on Dec. 26 that nurses who were rehired and promoted...
Also in the News for Thursday, Jan. 2
By
Liza Berger
Jan 02, 2020
CMS may remove some scope-of-practice restrictions … Lawsuit challenges Arkansas’ power to veto would-be operators … Diets high in fat connected to vision loss in seniors
Move from fee-for-service to managed care ‘a disaster’ for long-term care, Parkinson says
By
Liza Berger
Dec 10, 2019
WASHINGTON, DC — Changing payment models have made the last decade “an incredibly bad time” for long-term care in many ways, the leader of the nation’s largest nursing home group said Monday.