Nursing facilities have always faced an array of obligations in order to provide services to Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, which can sometimes seem burdensome in comparison with other providers....
Healthcare law elicits some positive reactions
Jul 06, 2010
A new poll finds that more Americans feel positive about the new healthcare law, but it is unclear whether this approval will continue to rise.
Bernanke: Medicare, Social Security could be casualties of mounting deficit
Apr 09, 2010
The growing deficit could force the federal government to raise taxes or change entitlement programs, such as Medicare and Social Security, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said this week.
CLASS ACT clears hurdle in Senate healthcare bill debate
Dec 07, 2009
An attempt to kill off the Community Living Assistance Supports and Services (CLASS) Act was thwarted Friday.
Schwarzenegger tells Congress that states can’t afford proposal to expand Medicaid program
Aug 05, 2009
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) sent a letter to federal lawmakers deriding a certain Medicaid provision in healthcare reform legislation. He also praised some newly proposed congressional...
Senate to hold off on healthcare bill mark-up until after summer recess
Aug 03, 2009
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) has made it clear that his committee would not finish deliberation on its healthcare reform proposal before the summer recess begins this Friday.
Long-term care advocates applaud provisions in Senate healthcare reform bill
Nov 20, 2009
The American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging gave kudos to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and others for including the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act in...
Funding available for nursing home employee background check systems
Jun 11, 2010
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Thursday began accepting grant applications from states to establish systems for background checks for potential long-term care employees.
OIG: Electronic health records vulnerable to mispayments
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McKnight's Staff
Nov 30, 2012
EMRs are expected to become the norm for healthcare providers in the future. But in the infancy of their use, they lack oversight and safeguards, a new report says.
Study: End-of-life care planning improves quality of life of terminally ill patients
Aug 20, 2009
Amid the brouhaha over advance care planning, a new study finds that such counseling actually makes dying cancer patients feel better.