Nursing homes are concerned about a new federal waiver that allows the state to reform its long-term care program to emphasize home- and community-based care.
State News: Ohio: Medicaid funding plan favors home care
Aug 02, 2011
OHIO — Instead of cutting its way out of an $8 billion budget shortfall, the state will instead shift more funding dollars away from nursing homes toward less costly home-based long-term care in a move...
Mississippi: Barbour targets Medicaid as way to balance budget
Jan 03, 2011
Gov. Haley Barbour (R) is looking to Medicaid to balance the state’s troubled budget. Barbour’s proposal includes a 4% reduction in Medicaid payments to nursing homes and an 8% cut to hospitals...
Iowa: Governor-elect defends nursing homes over surveyors
Dec 01, 2010
Governor-elect Terry Branstad (R) recently told Iowa Public Television viewers that the state’s nursing home inspectors have “a gotcha attitude” when it comes to in the way they enforce...
State News for July 2017
Jul 06, 2017
Illinois must reprioritize payments in order to make a dent in its $2 billion backlog of bills owed to Medicaid providers, including long-term care operators, a federal judge ordered in June.
New York, New Jersey facilities struggle to recover after Hurricane Sandy and winter snowstorm
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McKnight's Staff
Dec 02, 2012
It could be months before New York and New Jersey long-term care facilities and their residents fully recover from the double whammy of Hurricane Sandy and the subsequent nor’easter winter storm...
Whopping Medicaid cuts to hit nursing facilities hard
Dec 01, 2011
California has managed to gain Obama administration approval to cut the state’s Medicaid program funding by $1.4 billion. Providers soon will feel the sting of 10% reimbursement cuts.
State News
Apr 01, 2014
PENNSYLVANIA – The state’s nursing home operators say they are approaching fiscal disaster as facilities look at razor-thin margins half the national average.
State News for May 2016
May 04, 2016
KANSAS — Kansas nursing home operators will receive help paying for residents whose Medicaid applications or renewals are stuck in processing limbo, state agencies announced in late March.
State News for February 2015
Feb 01, 2015
MASSACHUSETTS — Thanks in part to the Affordable Care Act, the concept of palliative care has become more prominent in the national conversation about the end of life. Now these conversations are mandated...