Provider group hammers Congressional leadership on lowering provider tax threshold
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McKnight's Staff
Jun 06, 2012
The American Health Care Association continued its assault Wednesday on a Republican proposal to use Medicaid provider assessments to offset subsidies to the Stafford student loan program.
Congressman proposes ‘doc fix’ extension
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McKnight's Staff
Jul 24, 2012
A newly proposed bill in the U.S. House would extend Medicare physician payment rates for one year while legislators work to devise a more manageable alternative to the existing formula.
Nursing Home Design – Samaritan Manor, Detroit
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McKnight's Staff
Sep 01, 2007
Motown receives its first new nursing home since the 1980s. Private rooms lend a homelike touch to the renovated hospital space
Hospitalizations contribute to cognitive decline, study finds
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McKnight's Staff
Mar 23, 2012
Seniors who have been hospitalized have a higher risk for experiencing a cognitive decline, a new study finds.
Nursing home loses rosary case; ordered to pay ex-employee $70,000
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McKnight's Staff
Oct 16, 2012
A Mississippi nursing home has been ordered to pay nearly $70,000 in damages for terminating an employee for not praying the rosary.
Nursing homes’ strong negotiating position with ACOs will not last long, legal expert says
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McKnight's Staff
May 03, 2013
Skilled nursing facilities that delay joining an Accountable Care Organization will likely be losers in the healthcare marketplace, according to John Durso, a partner at the law firm of Ungaretti & Harris...
‘Serious’ CMS oversight should compel providers to be duly vigilant about compliance, expert...
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McKnight's Staff
May 08, 2013
Skilled nursing providers should ratchet up Medicare Part A compliance initiatives to meet the increasingly intense scrutiny of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, a compliance expert said in...
Tight timeline forces LTC commission to narrow its ambitions, member says
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McKnight's Staff
Jun 18, 2013
With its report due by the end of September, the Congressional Long-Term Care Commission is setting its sights on what can be accomplished in an “extraordinarily short time-frame,” according...
Putting first things first
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McKnight's Staff
May 01, 2013
A recipe for a complicated nursing home renovation: Take one facility that hasn’t been updated in 45 years, add a strict budget and keep residents on site throughout the project. Columbia Health...
How to do it…wound care
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McKnight's Staff
Jun 05, 2012
Since 1995, negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) has used controlled sub-atmospheric pressure to remove fluids and infectious materials from a wound while stimulating the formation of vessels and drawing...