The Senate Thursday passed a bill that would crack down on gift giving by lobbyists and require lawmakers to disclose more about fundraising efforts. The healthcare industry, including nursing homes, spends...
Panel issues report on nonprofit reforms
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Haymarket Media
Jun 24, 2005
Charitable organizations should strengthen oversight and reporting of their activities, according to a report issued this week from a panel of nonprofit leaders.
AHCA pushes toward payment reform
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Oct 06, 2015
The American Health Care Association and the National Center for Assisted Living will soon face their “most formidable challenge of all,” in delivering a proposal for payment reform to Congress,...
Provider groups push for RAC reform
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John Hall
Feb 06, 2015
Hospital industry groups said Thursday they’d rather the government reform the Recovery Audit Contractor program than simply throw more money at fixing an onerous backlog of more than 800,000 Medicare...
Giving an ear to healthcare reform debate
By
Gary Tetz
Mar 28, 2012
Did you know you can download audio recordings of all oral arguments heard by the Supreme Court of the United States? I didn’t, and I haven’t been this excited since stumbling across all those...
Snowe lends a vote to reform—for now
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John O'Connor
Nov 01, 2009
Breaking a partisan logjam, Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe joined Democrats in voting a major healthcare reform bill out of the Senate Finance Committee.
Editors’ Blog: The details of healthcare reform
Oct 14, 2009
The bill that received the approval of the Senate Finance Committee Tuesday contains a lot of provisions you don’t hear about.
Minnix expects Senate to include CLASS Act in healthcare reform bill
Nov 11, 2009
The president and CEO of the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging feels confident that the CLASS Act will make it into a final healthcare reform bill.
Governors offer Congress proposals to overhaul Medicaid
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Haymarket Media
Jun 16, 2005
The National Governors Association Wednesday suggested to Congress ways to reform Medicaid and trim $10 billion off the program. One proposal entailed allowing states to impose higher premiums, deductibles...
This Price is no bargain
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John O'Connor
Mar 05, 2017
Dr. Tom Price recently became Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Long-term care operators should cast a wary eye for two reasons: Medicaid and Medicare.