Health IT companies work together to simplify revenue cycle management
Feb 27, 2018
Two health information technology companies are working in concert, hoping to help providers simplify revenue cycle management and billing.
Content Management Module introduced
Feb 27, 2018
K4Connect announced the creation of its Content Management Module (CMM), an optional add-on to its flagship K4Community, that is built specifically for senior living community residents, staff and operators.
Salaries trend upward for multi-site LTC executives
By
Marty Stempniak
Feb 26, 2018
Chief executives of multi-site long-term care organizations earned 4.98% more in base compensation in 2017 than the previous year, according to a new survey commissioned by LeadingAge.
Three nurses arrested after unsealed video reveals they ignored resident’s pleas
By
Kimberly Marselas
Feb 23, 2018
Three nursing home employees accused of ignoring the pleas of a World War II veteran in respiratory distress have been charged in his 2014 death, a Georgia prosecutor announced this week.
Medicare pays for opioids over alternatives, lawmakers say
By
Kimberly Marselas
Feb 16, 2018
Lawmakers took a long-standing industry complaint to the Department of Health and Human Services this week, telling Secretary Alex Azar that Medicare and Medicaid favor opioid prescription over non-addictive...
Shortage of workers listed as major concern in senior living report
Feb 14, 2018
Eighty-two percent of senior living providers see a shortage of workers as a key concern over the next year, according to a new survey from Lancaster Pollard.
Injury prevention is crucial to employee retention
By
Greg Snoddy
Feb 14, 2018
Everyone in the senior living industry has heard it before: Medical advancements are leading to residents living longer now than ever before.
Skilled nursing providers would lose out under Trump’s revised payment system
By
Kimberly Marselas
Feb 14, 2018
A plan to lump together payments to all post-acute providers would be a budget cut dressed up as reform, providers said after reviewing the Department of Health and Human Services budget proposal.
Tough flu strains hit hard, plague elderly
By
Elizabeth Newman
Feb 09, 2018
Influenza hit most of the United States by early January, government officials said. ‘‘This is the first year we have had the entire continental US be the same color on the graph, meaning there is...
Reader poll: What do you see as the future of long-term care?
Feb 08, 2018
“From a service delivery perspective, providers will need to challenge themselves to evolve towards a care model that embraces personal choice, technology, person-centered care, integration across the...