Massive cyber attack creates crushing billing burdens for skilled nursing; sparks efforts for payment...
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 01, 2024
A cyberattack that has shut down the nation’s largest healthcare billing clearinghouse and impacted dozens of related services for 10 days is delaying payments, threatening major cash flow issues for...
Advocates call for ACA-backed demonstration projects in nursing home sector
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 28, 2024
Patient advocates and nursing home operators intent on shifting the traditional approach to skilled nursing care should seize on a call for demonstration projects included in the Affordable Care Act, two...
Also in the News for Friday, Feb. 23, 2024
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 23, 2024
Ohio launches its own Nursing Home Quality Navigator … Vermont struggles with nursing home discharges … New group will advocate for dually eligible nursing home residents, other beneficiaries … Hospital...
Parkinson forecasts record occupancy, ‘massively good news’ for sector
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 14, 2024
MIAMI — A significant drop in new nursing home construction is adding to the woes of a shrinking sector that will soon be tasked with caring for a rapidly aging US population, American Health Care Association...
Also in the News for Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 13, 2024
Nurse accused of killing nursing home patients with insulin seeks quick case resolution … New Senate working group to reform Medicare physician pay system, with possible SNF implications … Healthpeak...
‘Crying wolf’ or dying breed? Incentives often ignore plight of rural skilled nursing operators
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 29, 2024
As hundreds of nursing homes have shuttered in the last few years, the very strategies meant to prop up the sector have often left the most isolated, resource-strapped facilities with nothing gained.
When it comes to unions, representation and power aren’t in lock step
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 23, 2024
Is union power on a downswing? As ever, the answer may depend on who you ask, or how you do the math.
‘Sky is the limit’ for health information networks’ SNF insights
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 23, 2024
An expanding health information exchange connecting 71 hospitals and nearly 600 post-acute providers in New Jersey is exceeding expectations and providing staffing insights not necessarily envisioned when...
MedPAC member: Give Congress more on nursing home staffing mandate implications
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 12, 2024
The likely costs of complying with a federal staffing mandate will affect nursing home margins so “massively” that a Congressional advisory board should offer alternative payment guidance for the sector,...
Gripped by uncertainty, skilled nursing providers just keep breathing
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 10, 2024
Uncertainty may very well be the defining outlook for skilled nursing providers in 2024. At the very least, it was the theme that dominated our annual survey attempting to capture your attitudes heading...