RACs recovered $8,000 from skilled nursing facilities, $2.3 billion overall in 2012, report shows
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Tim Mullaney
Mar 27, 2014
Medicare recovery audit contractors collected about $8,000 in fiscal year 2012 through a skilled nursing facility claims review pilot, according to a recently released annual report to Congress.
THE WAIT IS OVER: McKnight’s Online Expo kicks off today
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Tim Mullaney
Mar 26, 2014
Today’s the day: Long-term care professionals, top vendors and subject matter experts are convening for the eighth annual McKnight’s Online Expo. Minimum Data Set changes, technology adoption...
Current antipsychotics quality measure is too hard on long-term care providers, researchers argue
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Tim Mullaney
Mar 26, 2014
An updated quality measure would paint a fairer picture of nursing homes’ antipsychotic prescribing practices, say researchers at Miami University in Ohio and Rutgers, the State University of New...
Neglect charges filed against 10 workers at nursing home where residents from a troubled sister facility...
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Tim Mullaney
Mar 26, 2014
Hidden camera footage has led to felony and misdemeanor charges against 10 caregivers at a skilled nursing facility in New York, the state’s attorney general announced Monday. The accused caregivers...
CMS releases new Minimum Data Set training videos; session on coding to kick off McKnight’s Online...
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Tim Mullaney
Mar 25, 2014
Post-acute providers now can refer to four new Minimum Data Set training videos from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, which answer frequently asked questions and clarify tricky items related...
Large number of hospitalizations could be prevented for cognitively impaired residents on feeding tubes,...
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Tim Mullaney
Mar 25, 2014
Residents of long-term care facilities who are cognitively impaired and on feeding tubes have high numbers of potentially preventable emergency room visits and hospitalizations, according to newly published...
Acute, post-acute partnerships reduce C. diff about 50% in Washington state
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Tim Mullaney
Mar 25, 2014
Hospitals and post-acute facilities in Washington state have cut their rate of Clostridium difficile infections in half since 2012 by partnering with each other in a robust infection control program, according...
In dementia’s crosshairs, women speak out
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Tim Mullaney
Mar 25, 2014
Alzheimer’s disease does not discriminate. Or so we’ve been repeatedly told — for example, when “Iron Lady” Margaret Thatcher died, almost exactly one year ago. But a report out...
Analysis shows strong prospects for long-term care M&A activity; experts to address business topics at...
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Tim Mullaney
Mar 24, 2014
The long-term care sector is poised to see better merger and acquisition activities than in past years thanks to a confluence of factors, according to a new report from professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Most continuing care retirement communities are not ‘isolating’ settings, CMS clarifies in...
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Tim Mullaney
Mar 24, 2014
Continuing care retirement communities don’t create the same problem of isolation as skilled nursing facilities, according to new guidance on a recently finalized Medicaid regulation.