The first two years of a mandatory payment bundle for joint replacements saved Medicare more than 2% annually, but much of it came through reduced payments to post-acute providers.
Nexion’s Fran Kirley: Thriving by using culture to recruit workers, oust agency
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 25, 2022
During the pandemic, Nexion Health saw its agency staff costs increase by 12 times its base, from $1 million annually in 2019 to about $12 million each in 2020 and 2021.
Cut SNF pay 5%, keep freeze on physicians and therapists, MedPAC says
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 13, 2022
Skilled nursing facilities would take a major pay cut in 2023 if Congress were to adopt draft recommendations proposed by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission.
Nathaniel Witherell adds new directors of nursing, financial operations
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Kimberly Marselas
Oct 07, 2020
Nadia Benson, RN, has joined The Nathaniel Witherell as director of nursing services while Nunzio Raimo has been named director of financial operations at the skilled nursing and short-term rehabilitation...
Are we ‘driving’ in the right direction when it comes to ongoing vaccine access?
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 28, 2021
Even as news broke Tuesday that fully vaccinated residents could once again dine and socialize — without masks! — in close proximity to one another, there came a nagging reminder that it’s too early...
Telepsychiatry helps reduce antipsychotics, others’ use
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Kimberly Marselas
Nov 14, 2019
An Encounter Telehealth analysis of 40 rural skilled nursing facility partners in Iowa revealed a 6.7% reduction in the use of antipsychotics following 14 months of psychiatric telehealth services. Some...
Brookline Transportation launches senior living division
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Kimberly Marselas
Oct 13, 2020
Brookline Transportation — a Mayflower Van Lines agent specializing in commercial, lab, medical, science and residential moves — recently added a senior living division to its residential and commercial...
Disgruntled family member arrested after confronting nursing home employee, threatening to bring gun...
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 08, 2018
Police have arrested a Connecticut man for confronting a nursing home employee off the grounds and threatening to bring a gun to the facility.
More home care needed for heart patients, study finds
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Kimberly Marselas
Dec 04, 2019
Heart patients are less likely to return to a hospital after a skilled nursing discharge if they are prescribed home care, a new study has found.
State doubles support for Medicaid-dependent nursing homes
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 01, 2019
After struggling with shortfalls for years, Pennsylvania’s nursing home operators are cheering a state budget that will double funds available to facilities with the highest Medicaid census. The spending...