Hospitals participating in joint-replacement bundle more likely to use narrow network of SNFs
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Marty Stempniak
Dec 07, 2018
Hospitals participating in a bundled payment initiative for patients receiving joint replacements are more likely to narrow the network of nursing homes they use.
Also in the News for Friday, Dec. 7
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Marty Stempniak
Dec 07, 2018
Nursing facility spending growth slowed to 2% last year, Health Affairs study shows … More than half of nursing homes balk at state’s stricter staffing rules … Health department ordered to turn...
Feds agree with industry: Site-neutral payments are necessary
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Marty Stempniak
Dec 06, 2018
Federal agencies are touting a uniform payment program for the post-acute sector as one possible way to bolster competition and choice in healthcare, according to a new report.
Nursing home that repeatedly hung up on deaf woman ordered to pay up, train staff
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Marty Stempniak
Dec 06, 2018
A New Jersey nursing home could be on the hook for more than $12,000 in penalties after one of its workers repeatedly hung up on a deaf social worker.
Health and Human Services must recode feeding device, court rules
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Marty Stempniak
Dec 06, 2018
A federal court has ordered Health and Human Services to use a unique billing code for a certain type of feeding device.
Also in the News for Thursday, Dec. 6
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Marty Stempniak
Dec 06, 2018
Bankrupt Senior Care Centers late on rent with another landlord … U.S. relies heavily on foreign born workers: Report … CMS faults nursing home for not performing CPR on resident who appeared to have...
A horse is a horse (of course) at nursing home
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Marty Stempniak
Dec 06, 2018
One Minnesota nursing home has handed the reins to an unconventional therapy animal: Toby, the therapy horse.
Profile: Randie Duretz is an LTC ‘Energizer Bunny’
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Marty Stempniak
Dec 05, 2018
Randie Dale Duretz was named after a race horse, and by all accounts her parents must have been prescient.
A Day in the Life: Facility a regular ‘animal house’
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Marty Stempniak
Dec 05, 2018
One Louisiana nursing home has become a regular animal house, though it’s not populated by frat boys or sorority sisters.
Provider can’t sue for Medicaid eligibility
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Marty Stempniak
Dec 05, 2018
Three Maryland nursing homes have come up empty in their attempts to take state officials to court on behalf of their residents over Medicaid eligibility.