More than 90 healthcare groups extend support to CMS nominee Berwick
Jul 02, 2010
More than 90 different healthcare organizations have come forward to support Don Berwick, nominee for administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. He has faced a barrage of Republican...
SIX DAYS TO GO: McKnight’s 5th Annual Online Expo
Mar 17, 2011
Two federal courts recently issued nearly identical rulings declaring the Medicare cap on hospice reimbursements to be invalid. They continue an unbroken series of rejections of the Department of Health...
PharMerica to be acquired by KKR in $1.4B deal; Walgreens will a be minority investor
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Elizabeth Newman
Sep 06, 2017
Global investment firm KKR will buy PharMerica Corporation in a $1.4 billion deal, the companies announced in August.
Genesis Healthcare improperly uses background checks, federal lawsuit charges
By
Tim Mullaney
Jan 13, 2015
One of the largest nursing home chains in the nation uses background checks on potential employees in a way that violates the Fair Credit Reporting Act, according to a federal lawsuit filed last week.
Supreme Court grapples with concept of ‘implied’ False Claims case
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Apr 21, 2016
The nation’s highest court struggled Tuesday during oral arguments in a controversial False Claims Act case to determine at what point a false claim truly is “false.”
CareTrust REIT pays $177 M to boost skilled care holdings
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Dec 04, 2015
CareTrust REIT has completed the acquisition of a $177 million skilled nursing portfolio from Liberty Healthcare in Ohio, the company confirmed in October.
Nursing homes’ security threatened by information posted to hacker website
By
Tim Mullaney
Feb 19, 2014
Documents posted to a file-sharing website could have been used to steal medical record and credit card information from three nursing homes in New York state, according to a Tuesday report in the Wall...
Nursing home provider fails in legal bid against ‘extrapolation method’ in determining Medicare...
By
Tim Mullaney
Feb 18, 2014
A government contractor can calculate how much money a provider owes for Medicare overpayments by doing a limited audit and then extrapolating from those findings, a federal appeals court recently affirmed.
14th Long Term & Post-Acute Health IT Summit takes new direction
May 25, 2018
The nation’s leading healthcare I.T. summit has broadened its focus under the new leadership of LeadingAge’s Center for Aging Services Technologies and is now taking registrations. The event...
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