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Large nonprofits outperforming smaller organizations on EHR adoption
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Jul 21, 2017
More nonprofit senior living and care providers with multiple properties are adopting electronic health records than smaller nonprofit organizations, according to the results of a recent LeadingAge survey.
Medicaid reductions off the table, as GOP turns to plan D: Let Obamacare ‘fail’ on its own
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Elizabeth Newman
Jul 19, 2017
Even as providers exhaled Tuesday following the death of a GOP’s Better Care Reconciliation Act, Republicans began floating the idea of a direct repeal of the Affordable Care Act.
Providers must ramp-up staff competency, fortify partnerships to reduce readmissions, expert says
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Jul 18, 2017
Providers must take a long look at their staff members’ competencies and how they communicate with acute-care partners to survive amid a regulatory environment that’s constantly ramping up...
ACHCA pushes back on liability for individual nursing home admins
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Elizabeth Newman
Jul 18, 2017
The American College of Health Care Administrators has issued a firm policy statement that says that although nursing homes should be held accountable for certain misdeeds, individual nursing home administrators...
OIG: 90,000 Part D enrollees at ‘serious risk’ due to excessive opioids, prescribing patterns...
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Jul 17, 2017
Roughly half a million Medicare beneficiaries receive high amounts of opioids, with nearly 90,000 of those at “serious risk” from the medications, a federal watchdog warns.
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Jul 14, 2017
Wife survives husband’s nursing home murder-suicide attempt, he dies … Sabra shareholders urged to reject Care Capital Properties deal …Providers are increasingly moving to insurance...
CMS seeks to improve consistency among CMPs with analytic tool revisions
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Jul 13, 2017
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is hoping to even out the way civil monetary penalties are imposed via recently published revisions to its CMP Analytic Tool.
Senate healthcare bill puts quality of care at risk, coalition says
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Alyssa Salela
Jul 12, 2017
The number of Medicaid nursing home beds served could decline and some providers might start to refuse accepting Medicaid patients altogether if cuts proposed in the Senate healthcare bill occur, a coalition...
SNF deficiencies declining, but staffing still lower than recommended: report
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Jul 12, 2017
The average number of deficiencies per nursing home has dropped in recent years, but staffing levels are still falling short of what some experts recommend, according to a new report from the Kaiser Family...