Health IT summit on tap for long-term and post-acute care providers
Jun 14, 2013
Information technology experts and interested stakeholders throughout long-term care and post-acute care fields will be gathering Monday and Tuesday in Baltimore for their annual IT Summit in Baltimore....
GOP stepping up pressure over administration’s Medicare brochure for seniors
May 28, 2010
Republican members of Congress are expected to intensify their criticism of an Obama administration brochure that is being sent to seniors to help explain the new healthcare reform law. The brochure, which...
Long-term care association mourns death of Kennedy
Aug 27, 2009
Among those honoring the memory of Sen. Edward Kennedy, who died late Tuesday, was the long-term care community.
Political leaders offer various healthcare reform solutions
May 05, 2009
Over the weekend, five of the nation’s leading voices on healthcare reform submitted essays to politico.com expressing their own opinions on the ongoing debate. And while their individual ideas may...
Some healthcare reform provisions take effect
Jan 03, 2011
A number of key healthcare reform provisions affecting the long-term care industry began Jan. 1, right before the new session of Congress comes back to Washington, according to The Hill.
Nursing assistant faces 3 years in prison for HIPAA crime
By
Tim Mullaney
Oct 31, 2013
A former nursing assistant in a Florida assisted living center has been sentenced to three years in prison for stealing and selling patient information protected under the Health Insurance Portability...
Medicaid reductions off the table, as GOP turns to plan D: Let Obamacare ‘fail’ on its own
By
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.
Having my say: Federal funding for IT would be a solid investment
Apr 01, 2011
Ken Terry, Author of the book Rx For Health Care Reform
CMS: Hospice quality reporting to begin July 1, will require admission and discharge records
By
Tim Mullaney
Apr 14, 2014
Providers will have to report certain hospice quality measures to the federal government starting July 1, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services formally announced in a recent Federal Register notice.
Providers rip Medicaid panel’s reform package
By
James M. Berklan
Feb 07, 2007
Medicaid reform advice issued by a federal panel fell far short of what’s needed regarding financing reform, the leader of the nation’s second-largest nursing home association recently declared.