CMS: May take 3 years to finalize nursing home staffing rule
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Kimberly Marselas
Dec 12, 2023
Federal regulators concede it may take up to three years to finalize a proposed nursing home staffing rule, according to an extensive document that lays out administration rule-making plans for 2024 and...
Myndshft adds web app for benefits verification, coordinations
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Kimberly Marselas
Nov 25, 2020
Myndshft Technologies, provider of integrated benefits-check and prior-authorization technology for post-acute care providers, launched Myndview, a web application that offers the same real-time solutions...
Lawyers for seniors urge guardianship reform
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Kimberly Marselas
May 16, 2019
A group of legal advocates for seniors is calling for major changes to guardianship laws following an investigative report that found extensive flaws in the way one state handles its background checks...
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Dec 16, 2021
Legislation increases state’s ability to investigate long-term care facilities … Illinois lawmakers set spring deadline to pass nursing home reform plan … Idaho officials find one in four COVID deaths...
House COVID panel spreads nursing home blame, looks to next pandemic
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Kimberly Marselas
May 18, 2023
Three years after the height of the pandemic forever transformed nursing homes, a new Congressional panel took a stab Wednesday at finding someone to blame for deadly COVID-19 miscalculations.
Signature HealthCare’s Barbara Revelette on redesigning care delivery one role at a time
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Kimberly Marselas
Aug 08, 2022
Amid a nationwide staffing shortage, Signature HealthCare has undertaken a major effort to redesign care delivery, an effort Chief Nursing Operator Barabara Revelette, RN, MSN, says benefits caregivers...
MDS, quality reporting changes give providers a ‘bumpy road’ ahead
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Kimberly Marselas
Dec 21, 2023
Major changes to resident assessment tools, increasing quality reporting requirements and new state Medicaid payment tools will continue to dog providers well into 2024, a trio of clinical and reimbursement...
Dialysis provider Fresenius hit with $3.5 million HIPAA fine
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 02, 2018
Fresenius Medical Care, a nationwide dialysis provider that also runs labs, urgent care centers and post-acute practices, has agreed to pay $3.5 million to settle patient privacy allegations made by the...
Nursing home advocates say AGs’ push for punitive enforcement won’t improve quality
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 04, 2018
The leading association for skilled nursing providers said Friday that a call by state officials to reinstate tough federal enforcement policies might undercut quality gains.
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Kimberly Marselas
May 21, 2024
Senate leaders spark discussion on Medicare physician pay reform with new paper … Geriatric consultation on hospital outcomes in older adults with trauma … Study reveals most affordable online nursing...