CMS looking to take Innovation Center in ‘new direction’ with focus on flexibility, competition
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Sep 21, 2017
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is planning on revamping its seven-year-old Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, Administrator Seema Verma said on Wednesday.
Park in the Visitor spot
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Gary Tetz
Jul 09, 2018
It sits, beckoning but unattainable, just outside the entrance to your long-term care facility — the Visitor parking spot. You can see it, but don’t dare use it. Every day, in big, block letters,...
Things I think: Surviving the treadmill
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Gary Tetz
Mar 08, 2018
Exercise can be hazardous to your health. Like antipsychotics, its pursuit should include a black box warning that atypical, or even typical, fitness attempts carry increased risk of injury and embarrassment....
The LTC Zen master
Jul 04, 2016
It was just meaningless workplace chatter, signifying nothing.
CMS grants skilled nursing $820 million raise in final payment rule
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Marty Stempniak
Aug 01, 2018
As anticipated, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued its final rule for paying skilled nursing providers on Tuesday. Providers will see an $820 million raise for fiscal 2019, which begins...
Reader poll: What do you see as the future of long-term care?
Feb 08, 2018
“From a service delivery perspective, providers will need to challenge themselves to evolve towards a care model that embraces personal choice, technology, person-centered care, integration across the...
Editor’s Desk: A cash incentive test program for nursing homes in four states could shape your...
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James M. Berklan
May 01, 2009
Little things like pirates taking Americans hostage off the coast of Africa, wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the credit and housing markets crises have knocked long-term care out of the evening newscast,...
An IT game changer
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John Hall
Jan 08, 2018
Readmission rates are being attacked from all sides, and that includes by information
technology and software suppliers. Here’s a provider guide to ‘teching-up’
Nursing home stakeholders fire back at Medicare ‘drifting toward disaster’ claims
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Marty Stempniak
Jan 18, 2019
Provider advocates came out swinging Thursday over a McKnight’s story relaying a former government official’s claims that nursing homes share the blame in Medicare’s alleged “drifting toward disaster.”
Antibiotic stewardship mandate demands better leadership and training, experts stress
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Apr 04, 2017
Long-term care leaders learned seven core elements of a successful antibiotic stewardship program Monday at the ACHCA annual convocation Monday. The key is to look up, on expert said.