Most providers set to get a Medicaid pay raise next year
By
Marty Stempniak
Oct 29, 2018
State officials are reporting that Medicaid enrollment stayed flat, year over year, though most are planning for at least moderate increases on spending for nursing homes’ largest source of funding.
Nursing home for inmates gets first-of-its-kind federal funding approval
By
Apr 27, 2017
A Connecticut nursing home for paroled inmates has received funding approval from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, which observers say is a positive sign for other states mulling similar arrangements...
Nursing homes blamed for high opt-out rates in dual eligible demo
By
John Hall
May 18, 2015
Huge numbers of dual-eligible beneficiaries are leaving a demonstration project that hopes to improve payments for people eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid.
LTC Commission is making headway on a three-part report, staff director says
By
Tim Mullaney
Aug 14, 2013
With about a month to go before voting on policy recommendations, the Congressional Commission on Long-Term Care has drafted the first chapters of its report, commission staff director Larry Atkins said...
Court approves another pact that siphons facility residents
By
Elizabeth Newman
Jun 05, 2012
In another strike against the traditional nursing home census base, a federal judge in Maine has approved a class-action lawsuit settlement that lets those with long-term disabilities live in their home...
Operators often getting ‘sued,’ no matter their quality rating
By
Elizabeth Newman
May 02, 2011
Nursing homes with high quality ratings are sued almost as often as lesser performing nursing homes, according to a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
60 Seconds with… Theresa Bourdon, managing director, AON Risk Consultants
By
Haymarket Media
Jul 14, 2005
Q: Beyond showing a doubling of liability cases and tripling of settlement dollar amounts, what else struck you about
your recent report on nursing-homes’ liability costs?
A: The liability crisis...
Draft bill proposes counting observation stays for SNF coverage, limiting RAC oversight
By
Tim Mullaney
Nov 24, 2014
Hospital observation stays would count toward establishing Medicare eligibility for post-acute services, under comprehensive reforms in a new draft bill from the House Committee on Ways and Means. The...
Governor earmarks funds for SNFs in budget
Feb 01, 2012
Due partly to the average 11.1% reduction in Medicare payments to nursing homes that took effect in October, New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez (R) is asking state legislators to approve her state budget,...
Who Is exercising your residents?
By
Khadi Madama
Apr 26, 2011
It is time that state health agencies step up to the plate to see that our elderly are provided proper exercise in a safe environment by hiring the right people to create training through local colleges...