Summer book release explores AI as a companion to offset loneliness
By
Donna Shryer
May 27, 2024
With an international epidemic of loneliness, artificial Intelligence, or AI, may offer technology-based social interaction and companionship. That’s according to robotics expert Tony Prescott, a professor...
Senate HELP Committee passes Kennedy bill; providers worry about companion House plan
Jul 17, 2009
As fallout from the House healthcare reform plan continued to rain down Wednesday, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee passed its own reform proposal.
HealthMEDX forms MAB
Jul 24, 2013
HealthMEDX announced a new Medical Advisory Board made up of physicians in post-acute facilities, health systems and private practice.
Judge orders SNF owner charged in $1 billion fraud ring to be held without bond
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Oct 05, 2016
A Florida nursing home operator charged as the ringleader of a record-setting Medicare fraud scheme will continue to be held without bond, a federal judge said in a final ruling issued last week.
Long-term care reform hearing focuses on dual eligibles, home-based services
Mar 05, 2009
Public and private sector officials convened Wednesday to discuss the important role long-term care reform could play in a grander, overall healthcare reform scheme.
Providers rip Medicaid Commission report
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Haymarket Media
Jan 05, 2007
Medicaid reform recommendations issued by a federal panel come up short on the issue of financing reform, says the leader of the nation’s second-largest nursing home association.
It’s now or never for healthcare reform, Obama says
Jun 01, 2009
President Barack Obama told thousands of supporters last week that healthcare reform has to take place this year.
Candidates, lawmakers vow healthcare reform will occur, despite financial upheaval
Oct 17, 2008
The current global financial crisis will not prevent the next Congress or president from making healthcare reforms, key leaders are saying.
Feds want 30-year sentence, $207M in restitution for record fraudster Esformes
By
Danielle Brown
Sep 11, 2019
Prosecutors are seeking a sentence of at least 30 years in prison and an order to pay $207.4 million in restitution to Medicare and Medicaid for convicted long-term care business mogul Philip Esformes.
AAHSA: Republican chances of unraveling reform are slim
By
James M. Berklan
Dec 01, 2010
Healthcare reform opponents undoubtedly will try, but they are unlikely to be able to undo the landmark healthcare reform law. So said experts at the American Association of Homes and Services for the...