Another state accused of improprieties in granting private Medicaid contracts
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 17, 2018
A Pennsylvania Court has ruled the state’s Department of Human Services violated procurement rules when an official met with top executives of a company bidding for a share of its Medicaid service...
Lawmakers target SNFs’ big payer for fraud, waste cuts
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 08, 2018
A pair of Congressional subcommittees focused on oversight have banded together to examine ways to reduce Medicaid fraud and waste.
McKnight’s Fall Online Expo offers operational and compliance gold on Sept. 30
By
Kimberly Marselas
Aug 24, 2021
Looking for an advantage when it comes to data analytics, compliance or infection control? Then you won’t want to miss the McKnight’s Long-Term Care News Fall Online Expo on Sept. 30.
Value-based care focus could erode regulatory safeguards, critics argue
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 20, 2019
Several healthcare advocacy organizations — and at least two government agencies — are supporting efforts that make it easier for medical providers to share information about or refer patients to their...
OnSite, Direct Supply partner on medical waste sterilization
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Kimberly Marselas
Nov 11, 2020
Direct Supply is now offering its customers the OnSite TE-5000, a medical waste disposal solution that provides immediate sterilization so nursing homes can safely dispose of medical waste overnight without...
McKnight’s Fall Expo returns with industry-bests on data, regulations, infection control
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Kimberly Marselas
Sep 22, 2021
Providers looking for an advantage when it comes to data analytics, compliance or infection control won’t want to miss the McKnight’s Long-Term Care News Fall Online Expo on Sept. 30.
A pill combining low doses of three blood pressure-reducing medications significantly increased the number of patients reaching blood pressure targets, compared with usual care.
Nursing home settles with fertilizer suppliers whose products exploded, leveling building
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 23, 2018
A Texas nursing home has settled a lawsuit filed in the wake of a 2013 fertilizer explosion that leveled the facility and forced residents to evacuate.
New York eyes ‘draconian’ screening, isolation for nursing home patients colonized with C. auris
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Kimberly Marselas
May 28, 2019
Facing the spread of the deadly and highly resistant Candida auris fungus, New York might require nursing homes and hospitals to conduct pre-admission screenings and isolate carriers and the infected.
A telehealth novice no more
By
Kimberly Marselas
May 25, 2021
This week, I had the pleasure of meeting a new doctor who’ll be helping one of my kids navigate a chronic condition. I sat in my office, not hers, on a comfy chair I dragged in from the kitchen. My daughter...