The House of Representatives has formed a long-term care caucus “dedicated to improving the access, quality and affordability of long-term care for individuals of all ages.”
Debate shifting after Senate kills tort bills
By
James M. Berklan
Jun 12, 2006
For the fifth time in three years, the Senate voted down tort reform proposals that would have eased burdens on nursing home operators and other healthcare providers.
Editor’s Desk: It’s been a big year (even without healthcare system reform)
By
James M. Berklan
Dec 01, 2009
You better believe healthcare reform would be important to the long-term care community, no matter how many or few times the phrase “long-term care” might actually appear in any Congressional...
Also in the News for Monday, April 3
By
James M. Berklan
Apr 03, 2023
Medicaid ‘purge’ rolls out for millions without automatic renewals … College team awarded $2.3M for ‘innovative’ falls prevention work … How palliative care can be integrated into states’...
Mary Ousley named winner of McKnight’s Women of Distinction 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award
By
James M. Berklan
Mar 11, 2021
Mary Ousley, chief strategy officer for long-term care giant PruittHealth and a past chair of the American Health Care Association, has been chosen as this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award winner in...
Parkinson calls on providers to fight Biden’s ‘offensive’ reform plans
By
James M. Berklan
Mar 21, 2022
The leader of the nation’s largest nursing home association is urging operators to battle “ridiculous” efforts to increase fines and other parts of the administration’s recently announced reform...
Trump budget wields more Medicaid cuts than expected
By
James M. Berklan
Jul 06, 2017
Providers who first thought they would be on uncommonly good footing with Republicans controlling both chambers of Congress and the White House were stunned earlier this year when Medicaid reform was put...
Providers incited over Medicaid provisions in Senate health bill
By
James M. Berklan
Jun 23, 2017
Senate Republicans emerged Thursday to release details of their health reform bill that would repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, and providers made no secret out of their displeasure.
Bogus bills, brazen breaches alleged against former nursing home owners
By
James M. Berklan
Jul 11, 2019
The sheer audacity in a complaint against the former owners of James Square nursing home in Syracuse, NY, will have tongues wagging — regardless of the lawsuit’s outcome — for years to come.
Providers have low hopes for better reimbursement
By
James M. Berklan
Mar 09, 2004
Long-term care providers may find themselves in a situation this year where no news is good news regarding reimbursement.
Then again, they probably aren’t really going to have much of a choice: In...