Maine getting fresh round of state COVID funding … Feds must ramp up efforts against antibiotic resistance: GAO … HHS BinaxNOW test distribution program to continue after PHE ends …
Nursing homes have to fight for pay protections in Medicare Advantage rule: expert
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 27, 2023
Providers must play an active role in stopping aggressive Medicare Advantage practices that have for years limited access to skilled nursing care, a top managed care expert warned administrators gathered...
Cost, conversion of long-stay residents fuel resistance to 3-day stay waiver
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 26, 2023
A new study of a key COVID-19 waiver backs up longstanding concerns that removing a hospital stay as a requirement for Medicare-covered nursing home care would shift too many long-term residents to skilled...
CMS eager to leverage new nursing home ownership data, leader confirms
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 26, 2023
A top Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services enforcement official said Tuesday that the agency is eager to use data collected under a proposed ownership transparency rule to “scrutinize how certain...
CMS leader balks on broader use of antipsychotic drugs
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 25, 2023
One of the nation’s top nursing home regulators is opposed to broadening exclusions for the use of antipsychotic medications, he told attendees of a national conference Friday.
Also in the News for Tuesday, April 25
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 25, 2023
Budget proposal offers big money for nursing homes, elder care in Ohio … Louisiana legislators consider weakening brand new nursing home disaster plan rule … Small and rural providers continue to lag...
CMS eyeing PDPM case-mix additions, changes
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 24, 2023
Federal regulators are weighing changes to the three-year-old Patient Driven Payment Model to account for missed opportunities — and potentially inappropriate coding choices — a top Medicare official...
Lawmakers, union attack AHCA’s opposition to nursing home staffing mandate
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 21, 2023
Two members of Congress joined national union leaders Thursday in accusing nursing home owners of diverting federal funds away from patient care in what was ostensibly a rally in support of a federal staffing...
Lab charged with billing $358 million for unneeded nursing home COVID tests
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 21, 2023
A lab owner has been accused of fraudulently billing Medicare and insurers for more than $358 million worth of COVID-related tests that nursing home clients said they neither wanted nor needed.
18 attorneys general plead for more SNF ownership information
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 20, 2023
The attorneys general from a diverse group of states have thrown their support behind a federal proposal to increase disclosure of nursing home ownership and related party information, saying the current...