EEOC issues final rules on workplace wellness programs
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May 18, 2016
Employers may offer employees and their spouses incentives for joining workplace wellness programs up to 30% of their individual “self-only” health coverage, the Equal Employment Opportunity...
State bill would ban anonymous complaints against nursing homes
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Apr 18, 2016
Anonymous complaints about Illinois’ nursing homes would no longer be accepted or investigated under a bill currently up for debate in the state House of Representatives.
Nurse practitioners improve transfer process, reduce errors, study finds
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Oct 25, 2016
Specially trained nurse practitioners help nursing homes improve the resident transfer process and reduce errors, recently published research shows.
Many SNF residents with kidney failure missing advanced directives, study shows
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Jan 09, 2017
Less than half of nursing home residents with end-stage renal disease have completed advanced directives that can help reduce hospitalizations and intensive procedures in their last months of life, a new...
GAO: Lack of ‘meaningful’ quality measures hurting providers
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Oct 14, 2016
A “misalignment” of healthcare quality measures may place a burden on providers and jeopardize the success of value-based payment methods, according to a new federal report.
11 charged with allegedly falsifying records at Michigan veterans facility
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Jul 25, 2017
Eleven former employees of a Michigan veterans long-term care facility are facing charges alleging they falsified medical documents, officials announced Monday.
Medicare ACOs boosted quality, savings in 2015, CMS reports
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Aug 26, 2016
More than 100 Medicare Accountable Care Organizations qualified for shared savings payments in 2015 by meeting quality performance standards and hitting their savings threshold, according to the Centers...
Clinton, Trump touch on Medicare solvency, ACA in final debate
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Oct 21, 2016
Healthcare-related topics surfaced briefly during Wednesday’s third and final presidential debate, sparking Affordable Care Act criticisms, assurances about medicare’s solvency, and a “nasty”...
State suspends license, accuses SNF staff of cover-up as facility’s post-Irma death toll rises...
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Sep 22, 2017
Florida officials on Wednesday suspended the license of a nursing home where residents died following Hurricane Irma, claiming staff made late entries to residents’ records in an attempt to alter...
New rule would toughen patient discharge procedures
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Oct 30, 2015
Discharge procedures for patients moving from hospitals to skilled nursing facilities would face tougher scrutiny under a proposed rule released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Thursday.