The American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging will align its group purchasing program with MedAsset Supply Chain system, under a deal announced yesterday. The merger will result in the largest...
Medicare language in health reform bill pleases providers
By
Liza Berger
Oct 01, 2009
Providers could be heard breathing a sigh of relief last month after the Senate Finance Committee released its healthcare reform bill.
LeadingAge fires back at Senators wanting tougher nursing home enforcement
By
Marty Stempniak
Mar 02, 2018
Two weeks after a dozen Senators expressed “deep concern” about the impact of delaying and reducing financial penalties against nursing homes, one of the profession’s leading groups is...
Editors’ Blog: Americans behaving badly
Aug 20, 2009
The healthcare reform debate has provoked some totally distasteful reactions. Comparing the president to Hitler? Carrying guns to town-hall meetings? Come on, People. This has gone too far.
CMS leverages technology in move from ‘pay-and-chase’ to fraud prevention
By
McKnight's Staff
Feb 26, 2013
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will utilize computer technology to shift from detecting and then prosecuting fraud (“pay-and-chase”) to preventing it, according to a CMS official...
NAB initiative seeks to improve administrator job description
Feb 19, 2013
The National Association of Long Term Care Administrator Boards announced the launch of a professional practice analysis. The effort will help NAB better identify domains of practice, tasks performed,...
GE, Microsoft to launch health data firm
By
John O'Connor
Feb 01, 2012
Microsoft announced that it will partner with General Electric to form a new company that makes healthcare information more accessible. The partners said they hope to optimize the treatment that healthcare...
SNF VBP review deadline nearing
Aug 17, 2018
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is reminding participants that the deadline to submit Phase Two Review and Corrections Requests concerning the Skilled Nursing Facility Value-Based Purchasing...
Nursing homes show slowest revenue growth in LTC sector, report finds
By
McKnight's Staff
Mar 30, 2012
Nursing homes had the weakest revenue growth in the long-term care sector in 2011 due to reliance on government funding, a new report reveals.
Three states to examine risk, reform in Medicaid project
By
Elizabeth Newman
Sep 19, 2014
Alabama, Washington and Nevada are participating in a yearlong Medicaid project that could help share risk between states and the federal government, the National Governors Association said this week.