Providers praise Senate passage of immigration reform bill
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Haymarket Media
May 26, 2006
The Senate approved a controversial, comprehensive immigration reform bill on Thursday. Certain provisions in the bill could help alleviate workforce shortages in long-term care facilities, according to...
Governors’ Medicaid reform ideas could influence commission
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Haymarket Media
Aug 04, 2005
Governors’ ideas on Medicaid reform could play a role in the cost cutting decisions of the Medicaid commission, which is assigned the task of cutting $10 billion from the program over the next five...
Medicaid new target of CMS pay-for-performance initiative
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Haymarket Media
Jul 19, 2005
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services plans to launch a Medicaid pay-for-performance initiative in which it will call attention to programs in several states as models for the rest of the country.
GAO says advertisements on the Medicare reform law misleading
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Haymarket Media
Mar 11, 2004
The General Accounting Office said Wednesday that advertisements and brochures the Bush administration has created on the new Medicare reform law misrepresent the prescription drug benefits for seniors....
Genesis, Kindred team up to tackle outcomes, transitions
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Mar 05, 2017
Two of the country’s largest post-acute care providers are joining forces in an effort to improve quality and care transitions.
Need an MDS conversion? There’s an app for that
Aug 14, 2012
Software vendor Caradigm has developed an application that converts Minimum Data Set information to Continuity of Care Documents.
Ohio judge permits healthcare reform suit to proceed to trial, follows similar action taken in Florida...
Nov 29, 2010
An Ohio federal judge recently allowed a lawsuit that challenges the insurance mandate of the healthcare reform law to proceed to trial.
IOM report: Nurses should have more independence, greater role in implementation of healthcare reform
Oct 06, 2010
The Institute of Medicine on Tuesday released a report calling for a larger role for nurses in the delivery of healthcare and in the implementation of healthcare reform.
Healthcare reform bill to delay implementation of RUG-IV until 2011
Mar 23, 2010
The RUG-IV classification system will not start until Oct. 1, 2011, under the new healthcare reform bill.
The BIG Picture: Healthcare reform is coming. So who in LTC cares?
By
John O'Connor
Nov 01, 2009
When the president, Congress, the media and others speculate about healthcare reform, they are not really talking about eldercare services.