Meet Melinda Monasterski, 2024 Rising Star honoree
By
Foster Stubbs
Jul 11, 2024
Melinda Monasterski, market president at Genesis Healthcare in Exton, PA, is a Rising Star honoree in the 2024 McKnight’s Women of Distinction awards program.
Report: STD infections grew fastest in older adults from 2020 to 2023
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Kristen Fischer
Jul 10, 2024
Sexually transmitted disease (STD) diagnoses in the United States rose by 23.8% between 2020 and 2023 in people over the age of 65 — the largest percentage increase among the cohorts analyzed.
Keeping diabetes at bay for 4 years can improve long-term health, study finds
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Kristen Fischer
Jul 10, 2024
People with prediabetes can lower their long-term risk of death and diabetes-related complications if they can delay the onset of diabetes for four years using diet and exercise, according to a study published...
Medicare linked to better health in sexual minorities, report finds
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Kristen Fischer
Jul 10, 2024
Medicare eligibility is tied to better health in LGBTQI+ adults compared to heterosexual adults. In states with more preexisting sexual disparities, the federal health program may lower insurance disparities...
Clinical briefs for Thursday, July 11
By
Kristen Fischer
Jul 10, 2024
Study: Healthcare workers may have lingering taste, smell issues after COVID-19 … Report:Higher neuroticism has potential link with dementia risk … Model spots cognitive decline from Alzheimer’s...
Docs, therapists to see pay cut but caregivers score in ’25 physician pay rule
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 10, 2024
Doctors, therapists and others billing under the physician fee schedule would see an average 2.93% reduction in Medicare pay next year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposed Wednesday.
Frustration, fury: Lawmakers renew push as new report skewers drug middlemen on pricing
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 10, 2024
An interim report issued by federal officials this week excoriated pharmacy sales middlemen over business practices that have grossly inflated drug prices — and made it harder for long-term care pharmacists...
Grand Health Care settles with DOJ for $21M in rehab upcoding case
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James M. Berklan
Jul 10, 2024
The Grand Health Care System and its 12 affiliated skilled nursing facilities will pay more than $21.3 million to settle allegations of therapy upcoding that involved a quota system for keeping billing...
Also in the News for Thursday, July 11, 2024
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jul 10, 2024
HHS proposes interoperability rule with two new sets of certification criteria … Harris poll shows healthcare workers still struggling with personal finances … Nursing home staff, deputies honored...
Meet Lesly Martinez, 2024 Rising Star honoree
By
Foster Stubbs
Jul 10, 2024
Lesly Martinez, regional vice president at Atria Senior Living in Louisville, KY, is a Rising Star honoree in the 2024 McKnight’s Women of Distinction awards program.