Lawmakers target SNFs’ big payer for fraud, waste cuts
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 08, 2018
A pair of Congressional subcommittees focused on oversight have banded together to examine ways to reduce Medicaid fraud and waste.
Republican lawmakers accuse CMS of focusing on recovering, not preventing, improper payments
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Sep 13, 2016
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services relies too much on investigating improper Medicare payments after they’re made instead of preventing them to begin with, Republican lawmakers said Monday.
Electronic hand hygiene monitoring cuts MRSA rates by 42%
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Jul 12, 2016
Use of an electronic hand hygiene monitoring system decreased the rate of healthcare-acquired MRSA infections in one health system by 42%, research shows.
Day in the Life: Sniffing out wandering residents
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Tim Mullaney
Apr 01, 2014
Long-term care providers might want to get themselves an Acki to help locate residents who wander from the premises. No, Acki is not the name of a brand new electronic monitoring system. Acki is a German...
Roommates getting in the groove
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Tim Mullaney
Jun 01, 2013
If you hear jazz while you’re at the Newark Extended Care Facility, it’s probably coming from the room shared by John Griggs and John Lott.
McKnight’s scores in Hermes international competition
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Kimberly Marselas
May 05, 2023
The McKnight’s Long-Term Care News editorial and art teams went 4-for-4 in in the 2023 Hermes Creative Awards.
Ask the wound expert … about wound care’s economic burden
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jan 25, 2023
Q: What is the burden of wound care on the economy and society at large?
Value-based care focus could erode regulatory safeguards, critics argue
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 20, 2019
Several healthcare advocacy organizations — and at least two government agencies — are supporting efforts that make it easier for medical providers to share information about or refer patients to their...
BCDI buys HealthDrive to fill gaps in its ancillary services
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Elizabeth Newman
Feb 05, 2019
Bain Capital Double Impact has bought HealthDrive, with a goal of serving more skilled nursing and assisted living residents.
Auditor finds home healthcare changes meant to decrease SNF costs saved far less than predicted
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Marty Stempniak
Jan 10, 2019
Controversial changes to a Missouri program that were aimed at keeping patients out of nursing homes have resulted in tens of millions of dollars less in savings than lawmakers had foreseen.