LeadingAge fires back at Senators wanting tougher nursing home enforcement
By
Marty Stempniak
Mar 02, 2018
Two weeks after a dozen Senators expressed “deep concern” about the impact of delaying and reducing financial penalties against nursing homes, one of the profession’s leading groups is...
Editors’ Blog: Americans behaving badly
Aug 20, 2009
The healthcare reform debate has provoked some totally distasteful reactions. Comparing the president to Hitler? Carrying guns to town-hall meetings? Come on, People. This has gone too far.
Public reactions to healthcare reform depressing, disturbing
By
Liza Berger
Aug 19, 2009
I can’t help but cheer some comments Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) made on Tuesday. In his brash way of speaking, he summed up my sentiments exactly. On Tuesday during a town-hall meeting in his state,...
NAB initiative seeks to improve administrator job description
Feb 19, 2013
The National Association of Long Term Care Administrator Boards announced the launch of a professional practice analysis. The effort will help NAB better identify domains of practice, tasks performed,...
GE, Microsoft to launch health data firm
By
John O'Connor
Feb 01, 2012
Microsoft announced that it will partner with General Electric to form a new company that makes healthcare information more accessible. The partners said they hope to optimize the treatment that healthcare...
At the crossroads: Legal considerations where government investigations overlap with tort risk in long-term...
By
Tom Barnard
Jill Steinberg
May 19, 2020
Note: See full list of authors below story. In roughly the seventh week after a majority of states and the federal government issued emergency declarations or “lock down” executive orders,...
In the face of crisis, enforcement risk looms for long-term care providers
By
Matt Curley
Jul 08, 2020
As long-term care providers brave the most significant public health crisis in our lifetimes, they also may find themselves at the center of an unprecedented increase in enforcement efforts driven by both...
SNF VBP review deadline nearing
Aug 17, 2018
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is reminding participants that the deadline to submit Phase Two Review and Corrections Requests concerning the Skilled Nursing Facility Value-Based Purchasing...
Nursing homes show slowest revenue growth in LTC sector, report finds
By
McKnight's Staff
Mar 30, 2012
Nursing homes had the weakest revenue growth in the long-term care sector in 2011 due to reliance on government funding, a new report reveals.
Republican lawmakers accuse CMS of focusing on recovering, not preventing, improper payments
By
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.