EEOC sues nursing home that fired worker with anxiety
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 05, 2018
A Tennessee nursing home fired a laundry technician rather than accommodate her request for time off to cope with an anxiety disorder, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charges in a new...
VA finds $1 billion healthcare budget hole
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Haymarket Media
Jun 27, 2005
The Department of Veterans Affairs is grappling with an unanticipated $1 billion shortfall for veterans’ healthcare in its current budget.
Fate of nursing home housing sex offenders remains in question
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Haymarket Media
May 05, 2005
A request by Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan to take into receivership a suburban Chicago nursing home that had been home to numerous sex offenders was put on hold while attorneys attempt to work...
Feds curious whether HIPAA is impeding care coordination for SNFs
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Marty Stempniak
Nov 16, 2018
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is asking if patient privacy laws are preventing coordination among nursing homes and other providers.
House members request $200 million to increase long-term care, geriatric medicine workforce
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Tim Mullaney
Apr 11, 2014
To meet an increasingly urgent need, Congress should earmark $200 million to expand the number of geriatric care workers. This was the case that 26 House members made in a recent letter Appropriations...
Ask the Legal Expert about… defamation
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John Durso
Feb 04, 2016
A former resident’s family member is bad-mouthing us on social media and in the press. While it is likely driven by grief, most of the information is false. What can we do? What should we not do?
MedPAC tells Congress to hasten post-acute pay overhaul
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Jun 16, 2017
The Medicare Payment Advisory Committee has submitted its June 2017 report to Congress, and with it request that lawmakers implement a unified post-acute care payment system beginning in 2021 — earlier...
No sign language interpreter for two years? Deaf former resident can sue nursing home
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 30, 2018
A federal judge ruled last week that a former nursing home patient who is deaf can pursue a discrimination case against the facility where she lived for more than two years because staff refused to provide...
Medicare RAC audit cuts a ‘serious concern,’ senator says
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Nov 17, 2015
Recent cuts to the number of documents a recovery audit contractor can request from a provider is “troubling,” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) said in a letter to the Centers...
House bill proposes safe harbor from medical malpractice litigation, could remove LTC liability actions...
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Tim Mullaney
Mar 03, 2014
A bill in the House of Representatives would create a safe harbor system to reduce malpractice lawsuits against Medicare and Medicaid providers, and it would give providers the right to request state-level...