The quest for secure, shareable information in the medical world is inching closer to reality.
AI diagnostic tool sets sights on readmission
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Kimberly Marselas
Nov 25, 2019
Clare Medical has created a new artificial intelligence-based diagnostic tool to accurately predict the likelihood of patients requiring admission to a hospital within 30 days. The data it generates can...
Also in the News for Thursday, June 8
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 08, 2023
Nursing home staff praised for evacuation efforts after roof-work fire … LTC advocacy groups support bill to broaden scope of nurse practitioners in skilled nursing and beyond … Healthcare cybersecurity...
CMS issues PDPM updates and makes 2.4% Medicare raise official
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 31, 2019
Editor’s Note: This story has been updated with comments from LeadingAge. Skilled nursing providers will split an $851 million pay increase in FY 2020, following a final rule published by the Centers...
‘Dumping’ cases: Court rules patients can sue states if a nursing home refuses readmission
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 21, 2019
Medicaid-covered nursing home residents have a right to sue states that do not have a fair appeals process in the case of unwanted discharges, a federal court ruled last week.
State lawmakers embrace small-house nursing homes, tackle prior authorization in ‘transformative’...
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Kimberly Marselas
Nov 21, 2023
A House bill, which passed 158-0 last week, prods the development of more “small house” nursing homes, promises better infection control responses and launches a pre-authorization pilot designed to...
BREAKING: CMS bulletin presses states on Medicaid nursing home spending
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Kimberly Marselas
James M. Berklan
Aug 22, 2022
States should use their Medicaid authority to help drive better health outcomes among nursing home residents, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said in an informational bulletin issued Monday.
While regulators are working furiously to push through a comprehensive nursing home reform agenda backed by the Biden administration, providers remain concerned about an earlier change whose impact is...
Lawmakers target nursing homes’ biggest payer for fraud reduction
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 22, 2018
Two Congressional subcommittees focused on oversight are banding together to look at reducing fraud and waste in the Medicaid system.
CMS targets more providers with pivot toward tougher surveys
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Kimberly Marselas
May 31, 2022
A CMS leader says the agency is going to more closely monitor and inspect hospitals with high COVID-19 transmission rates following a spike in 2022.