Nursing homes will see a higher-than-expected 4.0% increase in their Medicare Part A payments in fiscal 2024, per a finalized Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services rule publicized late Monday. But major...
Excitement over 3.7 percent SNF pay raise offset by staffing, quality measure uncertainty
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 05, 2023
Providers reacted with cautious optimism Tuesday to a proposed nursing home pay rule that offers operators a 3.7% Medicare Part A raise for fiscal 2024 without yet imposing promised new stringent staffing...
Nursing homes adopting senior living sales tactics to build census. Will it work?
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Kimberly Marselas
Oct 25, 2022
As staffing and occupancy pressures continue to bring some providers to the brink of closure, more appear to be borrowing a marketing tactic from their senior living peers.
Advocates work behind scenes to stop, reshape staffing rule as finalization nears
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 16, 2024
Several nursing home advocacy organizations have met with the White House Office of Management and Budget in recent days, angling to change the proposed minimum staffing rule that could be issued in final...
SCOTUS ruling lets disability rights ‘testers’ continue to ‘manufacture ADA litigation,’ for...
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Kimberly Marselas
Dec 08, 2023
Individuals who have no plans to use disability services but still “test” standards to force compliance with federal disability law can continue to do so, the Supreme Court ruled this week.
Another survey; another big, bad, sad number
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Kimberly Marselas
Sep 27, 2022
I spent nearly a month this summer examining your reflections on working in nursing homes. I read through nurse leaders’ comments about dissatisfaction with pay, the decreasing meaning in their jobs...
Also in the News for Tuesday, Oct. 24
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Kimberly Marselas
Oct 24, 2023
CMS issues updated MDS corrections … Opening of North Carolina VA nursing home delayed … Nursing home among three New York cyberattack victims … Nurse practitioners, physicians just as likely to...
‘Imperative’ to finalize staffing rule this year, dozens of House members tell CMS
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 20, 2023
More than a quarter of the House of Representatives signed a letter last week urging the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to move forward with its plan to institute a nationwide staffing mandate...
Also in the News for Thursday, April 13
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 13, 2023
Some OSHA workplace violence prevention proposals too ‘prescriptive’ or duplicative, LeadingAge says … NJ media calls for vote on nursing home reform legislation after second comptroller’s report...
Also in the News for Thursday, March 2
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 02, 2023
Fresh class action suit targets another veterans’ home over COVID failures … CA legislature makes second attempt at requiring 85% of Medicare spending go to direct care … Effort to repeal Washington’s...