‘Aggressive’ advance directive would allow patients to decline food, water at end of dementia...
By
Kimberly Marselas
Apr 02, 2018
A New York group that supports aid-in-dying has approved a new document allowing patients to record in advance that they’ll want to stop eating and drinking if they develop severe dementia.
Providers seek incentive pay as staffing requirements ratchet up
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 30, 2024
A quality incentive program that directs add-on funding only to nursing homes that enhance care and perform well on a series of patient metrics could be a lifeline for hundreds of facilities facing major...
Connecticut providers sue state health officials over staffing rule ‘overreach’
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Kimberly Marselas
Oct 12, 2023
Connecticut’s largest nursing home association has sued the state Department of Public Health to stop nurse staffing ratios, arguing that state officials went beyond the intent of the legislature in...
Telehealth, technology providers and insurers offer range of services in wake of coronavirus
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 10, 2020
As the novel coronavirus spread to at least 35 states this week, healthcare vendors and insurers scrambled to help skilled nursing providers prepare for a battle against potentially fatal respiratory infections. ...
As values shift, it’s time to add something back to nursing
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Kimberly Marselas
Oct 24, 2023
It seems like everything these days requires a value proposition to be appealing. What can we add to an experience or a product to make it better and one-up the competition?
Massive cyber attack creates crushing billing burdens for skilled nursing; sparks efforts for payment...
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 01, 2024
A cyberattack that has shut down the nation’s largest healthcare billing clearinghouse and impacted dozens of related services for 10 days is delaying payments, threatening major cash flow issues for...
Stop illegal, ‘exploitative’ admissions practices, feds warn nursing homes
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Kimberly Marselas
Sep 09, 2022
A federal regulator that rarely intervenes in nursing home practices on Thursday issued a strongly worded warning letter to nursing homes and collection agencies.
Debt ceiling deal may limit new health agency spending, jumpstart fraud efforts
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Kimberly Marselas
May 31, 2023
A deal to avert a debt-ceiling crisis and fund the government next year could place new limits on federal health spending while also giving a boost to healthcare fraud and abuse investigations.
Staffing shortages driving more public nursing homes to the precipice
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 22, 2023
Publicly owned nursing homes, often unable to increase revenue without the express consent of elected officials or taxpayer referendums, are finding themselves increasingly on the brink of collapse by...
As goes Texas?
By
Kimberly Marselas
Feb 07, 2023
What happens to Texas Medicaid rates between now and the end of May could either save or sink skilled nursing providers. But what happens in Texas surely won’t stay in Texas.