NextGate, a provider identity management company, announced a partnership with MatrixCare.
VA to form nursing academy
By
Haymarket Media
Jun 06, 2007
The Veterans Affairs Department plans to work with nursing schools over the next three years to help establish a nursing academy.
New Jersey to implement standardized forms for nursing home and hospital transfers
Oct 05, 2011
New Jersey will become the first state to require the use of a standardized form when a nursing home resident is transferred to a hospital, or when a resident is moved to a long-term care facility from...
This Price is no bargain
By
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.
New report analyzes effect of healthcare law on long-term supports and services
Apr 12, 2010
The National Academy for State Health Policy, in association with the SCAN Foundation, recently released a detailed look at new healthcare reform policy changes that affect long-term services and supports.
The sorting out begins the week after healthcare reform passes
Mar 26, 2010
Long-term care providers, among others, will spend the run-up to the Easter holiday and beyond continuing to decipher more precisely what healthcare reform provisions mean for them in the short term and...
House threatening Medicare and Medicaid reform in 2018
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Dec 08, 2017
Long-term care providers may be headed for another major Medicaid-funding fight in 2018 if House GOP leaders get their way.
AAHSA members to call lawmakers today, urging them to pass healthcare reform
Jan 26, 2010
The White House has signaled that it may be scaling back the healthcare reform bill, and one long-term care group is speaking out about it.
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,...