The sorting out begins the week after healthcare reform passes
Mar 26, 2010
Long-term care providers, among others, will spend the run-up to the Easter holiday and beyond continuing to decipher more precisely what healthcare reform provisions mean for them in the short term and...
Relief efforts slow to reach Haitian nursing home survivors
Jan 20, 2010
Eight days after a massive earthquake tore through the Haitian capital of Port-Au-Prince, many nursing home residents are still awaiting large-scale aid, according to recent news reports.
Editors’ Blog: Your thoughts on long-term care reform
Jun 25, 2009
Reduce administrative costs. Change the Medicaid payment system. Value the resident. These are all ideas McKnight’s readers have offered on the question of how to reform the long-term care system.
QIOs should target low-performing facilities, GAO says
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Haymarket Media
Jul 02, 2007
Quality Improvement Organizations should direct more of their resources to the improvement of “low-performing” nursing homes, a new report from the Government Accountability Office said.
Retirement reform includes Medicaid, Medicare, AHCA’s Daub says
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Haymarket Media
May 20, 2005
Reforming Social Security without addressing Medicaid and Medicare funding crises would be imprudent, the president of the American Health Care Association said in testimony before Congress Thursday.
All eyes on the Republican convention with Medicare reform a hot topic
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McKnight's Staff
Aug 24, 2012
Long-term care providers will be giving the Republican national convention in Tampa more scrutiny than usual next week.That’s when the party’s leaders will give Medicare reform higher importance...
‘Novel’ reforms needed to strengthen Medicare, House panel says
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Mar 18, 2016
Medicare is in need of “novel” proposals to preserve and strengthen the program, members of the House Ways and Means Health subcommittee said in a hearing on Wednesday.
State top court rules against enforcing arbitration clauses
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James M. Berklan
Nov 05, 2015
The Kentucky Supreme Court has added a significant decision to the body of rulings concerning nursing home pre-dispute arbitration agreements.
CMS should look at contractor performance, government agency says
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Jun 02, 2015
Following years of provider disputes, the Government Accountability Office released a report Monday encouraging the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to look at ways to improve the Medicare Administrative...
Smokers not informed of ways habit can affect wound healing
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Amy Novotney
Mar 04, 2015
Exposure to smoke from just one cigarette decreases blood flow to chronic wounds such as pressure ulcers, venous leg ulcers and diabetic foot ulcers. A new study shows the habit’s impact on healing...