Esformes sentenced to 20 years for $1B healthcare fraud scheme
By
Danielle Brown
Sep 12, 2019
Convicted long-term care businessman Philip Esformes was sentenced to 20 years in prison Thursday for a record Medicare fraud scheme that he ran through his network of nursing homes.
Nursing home reform won’t thwart Ensign’s steady success: analysis
By
Danielle Brown
Jun 17, 2022
The Biden administration’s proposed nursing home reform measures shouldn’t be a setback to the Ensign Group’s streak of record quarters, according to a new Seeking Alpha analysis.
Leading long-term care industry advocates are eyeing a registered nurse staffing requirement and enhanced Medicaid funding under a set of “bold” reform measures aimed at improving that long-term care...
Calls for LTC, Medicaid and Medicare reform collide as Biden prepares for first speech to Congress
By
Danielle Brown
Apr 27, 2021
Long-term care reform needs more than a proposed $400 billion to boost home- and community-based services, financial experts and industry observers are warning. The question is whether President Joe Biden...
Providers decry major ‘crack down’ without major funding
By
Danielle Brown
Mar 01, 2022
A historic slate of reforms that would set federal staffing standards and ratchet up penalties at poor-performing facilities — but not pay more for on-site upgrades — was widely criticized by providers...
Senate report details missteps in coronavirus nursing home response
By
Danielle Brown
Sep 28, 2020
Federal lawmakers recommended that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services should revisit its infection control policies in response to the COVID-19 pandemic’s severe impact on nursing homes.
Illinois bill pushes new pay model that rewards outcomes, sufficient staffing
By
Danielle Brown
Feb 24, 2022
Nursing home Medicaid rates in Illinois would be tied to resident outcomes and rooms would be restricted to three or fewer residents in a new reform proposal backed by providers and consumer advocates.
LTC alliance aims to bring ‘real systemic transformation’
By
Danielle Brown
Apr 28, 2022
The Green House Project and Pioneer Network are entering into a formal alliance in a push to bring system change towards long-term care reform.
Amid controversy, NY announces visitation reopenings at nursing homes, ‘sweeping’ operator reforms
By
Danielle Brown
Feb 23, 2021
Indoor visitations will resume Friday at nursing homes in New York.
States must rethink nursing home financing to drive transition to managed care: report
By
Danielle Brown
Apr 04, 2022
States must change the way they pay for nursing home services as they transition to managed care, and luckily they have multiple options to do so, according to a new report released Friday by Advancing...