Department of Justice launches nursing home task forces
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Mar 31, 2016
The Department of Justice announced plans Wednesday to create 10 regional task forces that will target nursing homes that provide “grossly substandard” care.
Judge bars SNF physicians from making end-of-life decisions for residents
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Feb 09, 2016
A California judge has ordered nursing home physicians to stop making end-of-life decisions and administering psychiatric drugs to residents deemed mentally incompetent.
Plan to cut funding gets strong rebuke
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John O'Connor
Sep 01, 2011
Long-term care officials excoriated a federal proposal to trim Medicare payments by more than 11%.
A question of word choice: ‘long-term care’ versus ‘long-term services and supports’
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Liza Berger
Jan 14, 2010
A new phrase appears to be emerging in the lexicon of long-term care. That phrase is “long-term services and supports.” (Notice the omission of the word “care.”)
Understanding tinnitus in residents
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Lauren Conte
Dec 08, 2017
Roughly 20 million people struggle with chronic tinnitus, while 2 million have extreme and debilitating cases.
Low wages and a lack of respect are the biggest reasons employers are having a hard time retaining and keeping nurses, according to a new industry survey.
Things I Think: What the gods want
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Gary Tetz
Apr 08, 2018
I know how much you look to me for guidance and insights in navigating the uber-complicated world of long-term care.
RAC groups battle provider plea for short-stay payment relief
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John Hall
Feb 19, 2015
Third-party firms that audit Medicare bills for payment issues are pushing back hard against a hospital association plea for more favorable short-stay reimbursements, adding to the ongoing unwelcome specter...
Finally, a Medicaid funding plan that actually makes sense
Jul 28, 2014
When politicians talk about Medicaid funding and nursing homes these days, an unsettling theme often emerges: the need to spend less of the former on the latter.
Lawmakers go to bat for providers over backlogged Medicare appeals
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James M. Berklan
May 22, 2014
Angry lawmakers ripped an overwhelmed Medicare appeals process that has wilted under a tenfold increase in audits recently. Federal officials from two key agencies agreed that the Medicare’s Recovery...