While regulators are working furiously to push through a comprehensive nursing home reform agenda backed by the Biden administration, providers remain concerned about an earlier change whose impact is...
State lawmakers embrace small-house nursing homes, tackle prior authorization in ‘transformative’...
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Kimberly Marselas
Nov 21, 2023
A House bill, which passed 158-0 last week, prods the development of more “small house” nursing homes, promises better infection control responses and launches a pre-authorization pilot designed to...
Susan Ryan named to new top position at Center for Innovation
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Kimberly Marselas
Nov 28, 2022
The Center for Innovation, or CFI, the parent organization of the Green House Project and Pioneer Network, is reorganizing its leadership as it focuses on growth.
CMS developing direct-pay model to test on seniors, others
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 25, 2018
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced it is exploring a direct-provider contracting model. It is the first payment reform initiative to result from the agency innovation center’s...
An Iowa prosecutor is dropping felony charges against a nursing home operator accused of misusing cash from a resident’s personal funds.
Leaders ponder: Will 1-year delay save the day on staffing mandate?
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Kimberly Marselas
Nov 07, 2023
It almost certainly will take federal regulators more than a year just to review tens of thousands of comments they have received on a proposed nursing home staffing rule, inevitably delaying any form...
To control private equity, legal experts suggest government sharpen existing tools
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 25, 2022
While the Biden administration is targeting private equity firms that invest in nursing homes for reforms, two attorneys well-versed in fraud argue that existing mechanisms could deter private equity from...
Bill would eliminate predatory staffing agency fees
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 10, 2023
Lawmakers in Colorado are poised to prohibit agency collection of fees charged to operators who hire agency nurses full-time.
Biden targets nursing homes
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 01, 2022
President Joe Biden made nursing home history March 1, when he included the sector in his first State of the Union address. Biden pledged a crackdown on private-equity investors and vowed tougher oversight.
Coming to a bus stop near you: Better nursing home conversations
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 29, 2022
There’s a dichotomy in the nation’s capital when it comes to treatment of caregivers who provide for the aging and the aging services system itself.