Local technicality causes new $75M skilled nursing/research facility to sit empty
By
Marty Stempniak
Aug 31, 2018
Providers in one Florida town may have a potential boondoggle on their hands, as a pricey new facility sits finished, but empty, because of an issue with local officials.
Consulting dermatologists to nursing homes to pay $4M in billing dispute
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Marty Stempniak
Aug 31, 2018
A Florida dermatology practice that consults to nursing homes is being forced to pay $4 million to settle allegations that it overused radiation simulations and upcoded claims for the procedures.
Judge says skilled care provider can keep quality control records secret in wrongful death lawsuit
By
Marty Stempniak
Aug 30, 2018
A New Hampshire nursing home that’s being sued for wrongful death does not have to divulge details about its quality control program, a Superior Court judge has ruled.
Most common cancer surgery for SNF residents often worsens lives: Researcher
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Marty Stempniak
Aug 30, 2018
Operating on frail, elderly nursing home residents who are suffering from breast cancer may not be the best course of action, according to a new study.
Nursing home may soon get help from local hospital system to figure out its slumping numbers
By
Marty Stempniak
Aug 30, 2018
A slumping county-owned Illinois nursing home may soon look to the local hospital operator to help turn things around.
Skilled nursing behind much of Next Generation ACOs’ $62M first-year savings
By
Marty Stempniak
Aug 29, 2018
Groups of healthcare providers, working to better coordinate care and spending with one another, cut Medicare spending by $62 million in the first year, with much of that coming reduced use of skilled...
Appeals court rules that facility may be liable for residents’ alleged abuse of gay fellow resident
By
Marty Stempniak
Aug 29, 2018
A lesbian resident of a skilled care and assisted living home in Illinois can sue the facility for failing to stop her neighbors’ bullying.
Also in the News for Wednesday, Aug. 29
By
Marty Stempniak
Aug 29, 2018
Economists suggest dropping long-term care hospital rates down to skilled nursing’s level to save $5 billion … Nursing home ordered to pay $500K, or $640 per resident, to settle class-action...
92-year-old vet donates $1M to help further nursing home care
By
Marty Stempniak
Aug 29, 2018
A Washington state assisted living resident is making a sizable donation to one university in the hopes of furthering the field of nursing home care.
Diagnoses not the key to predicting rehospitalization chances of nursing home residents: Study
By
Marty Stempniak
Aug 29, 2018
Nursing home administrators seeking the figurative canary in the coal mine to predict avoidable hospitalizations of residents might be looking in the wrong place.