Congress may give providers 2-year relief on CMS physician fee cuts
By
Joe Bush
Dec 01, 2022
Congress appears to be ready to soften proposed Medicare physician pay cuts and might make its aid good for two years instead of one.
Group wants feds to probe Medicare Advantage plans wrongly denying care
By
Danielle Brown
May 25, 2022
An influential group of healthcare providers is calling on the Department of Justice to investigate Medicare Advantage organizations that have been found wrongly denying services to beneficiaries.
Feds demand states expand COVID-19 vaccine administration to more seniors
By
Danielle Brown
Jan 13, 2021
More seniors will be able to start getting their first COVID-19 vaccinations after top federal health officials ordered states to expand their priority groups for doses this week.
Hippos and tigers and giraffes, oh my!
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 13, 2018
Over the last year or so, activities director Randie Duretz has formed a fast friendship with Connie Stine, 69, and her animals.
Golden Living fends off wrongful death suit in arbitration case referred by federal appeals court
By
Danielle Brown
Mar 02, 2020
Providers registered a significant win last week when Massachusetts’ top court emphatically reconfirmed that relatives of deceased nursing home residents cannot file a wrongful death lawsuit against...
Nursing homes carefully evaluating ‘unprecedented’ Medicaid block grant proposal
By
Danielle Brown
Sep 18, 2019
The recent unveiling on an “unprecedented” state proposal to convert its Medicaid program into a block grant system has a Tennessee provider advocate on high alert as it evaluates the plan’s possible...
ITUpdate
Nov 01, 2013
» The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently issued the latest version of the Minimum Data Set 3.0 Resident Assessment Instrument User’s Manual. The latest publication took effect Oct....
Make CMS audits less burdensome, providers urge lawmakers
By
McKnight's Staff
Apr 29, 2013
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services could take a variety of steps to make audits less burdensome, healthcare providers stated in white papers submitted to members of the Senate Finance Committee....
Regulations for nursing home ethics programs and QAPI still in the works, administrators say
By
McKnight's Staff
Mar 22, 2013
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is still working on the regulations for ethics and compliance programs that nursing homes were supposed to have implemented this month, CMS administrators admitted...
Court orders attorney to pay nursing home legal fees in ‘frivolous’ False Claims case
By
Kimberly Marselas
Feb 07, 2024
An attorney who brought a False Claims case against a Mississippi long-term care provider using publicly available — and later disproven — information must pay the facility’s legal fees, a court...