This is really it! Tuesday is final deadline to enter McKnight’s Tech Awards
By
James M. Berklan
Jul 06, 2024
Entrants have until midnight Tuesday (July 9) to get their submissions in for the 2024 McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards.
Docs, therapists to see pay cut but caregivers score in ’25 physician pay rule
By
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.
Report: STD infections grew fastest in older adults from 2020 to 2023
By
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.
Meet Kelly Pero-Petty, 2024 Rising Star honoree
By
Foster Stubbs
Jul 11, 2024
Kelly Pero-Petty, vice president of business development at Ignite Medical Resorts in Park Ridge, IL, is a Rising Star honoree in the 2024 McKnight’s Women of Distinction awards program.
Report: 40 percent of adult cancers tied to modifiable risk factors
By
Kristen Fischer
Jul 11, 2024
About 4 in 10 cancer cases and about a half of all adult deaths from the disease are tied to potentially modifiable risk factors, a new study finds.
McKnight’s Workforce Development webinars slated for Aug. 13
By
James M. Berklan
Jul 12, 2024
Registration is ongoing for the Aug. 13 McKnight’s Workforce Development Forum, a must-attend for any long-term care provider with employees.
Lawmakers say CMS should ban Medicare Advantage’s use of AI to deny care
By
Josh Henreckson
Jun 26, 2024
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services should consider banning artificial intelligence from being used to deny Medicare Advantage coverage pending a “systematic review,” a group of 49 congressional...
SNF owner led record $1 billion Medicare fraud ring, authorities say
By
James M. Berklan
Jul 25, 2016
The owner of more than 30 Miami-area nursing homes and assisted living facilities has been charged with leading a national record $1 billion-plus Medicare fraud scheme.
Trump commutes Esformes’ sentence
By
Liza Berger
Feb 01, 2021
President Trump in late December commuted the sentence of Philip Esformes, the former skilled nursing facility owner who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in a case that the federal government...
Federal judge sets $50 million bond for Esformes in fraud retrial
By
Danielle Brown
Aug 18, 2021
Bond was set at $50 million by a federal judge on Friday for a convicted former skilled nursing facility owner Philip Esformes being retried on unresolved Medicare fraud charges.