HUD testing housing model that could delay nursing home care
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Oct 25, 2017
The Department of Housing and Urban Development is seeking stakeholder comments on its plan to test a supportive services model that aims to cut down on seniors’ nursing home, hospital and emergency...
Improving SNF staff communication doesn’t help reduce resident falls, study finds
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Oct 04, 2017
A program aimed at improving communication among nursing home staff didn’t help reduce resident falls in facilities, a new study shows.
Limits on RAC program led to 83% drop in recoveries, report finds
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Dec 13, 2016
Constraints placed on the Recovery Audit Contractor program contributed to a significant drop in improper payments recovered by the auditors in fiscal year 2015, a new federal report shows.
Arbitration lawsuit against government to proceed without LeadingAge
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Oct 26, 2016
LeadingAge will not be joining the American Health Care Association’s lawsuit challenging the government’s ban on pre-dispute arbitration, the group said in a statement issued Tuesday.
Doctors convicted in $8.8 million Medicare hospice fraud
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May 09, 2016
Two California doctors were convicted Thursday of lying about patients’ terminally ill status in order to refer them to a hospice facility and submit roughly $8.8 million in fraudulent Medicare and...
Rates of several healthcare-associated infections, including C. difficile and MRSA, have decreased across the country, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Pre-dispute arbitration clauses should be banned, senators say
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Sep 25, 2015
Arbitration clauses inserted into nursing home admission contracts do not adequately protect residents’ rights, and should be outright banned, senators urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services...
Nursing home executive director salaries up 2.16%, report finds
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Jul 24, 2015
Nursing supervisors saw the largest boost in salary among nursing home employees this year.
SNFs can prosper after CMS’ bundled pay postponement
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Jan 08, 2018
Skilled nursing providers should capitalize on the opportunities presented by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ plans to roll out more voluntary payment initiatives, according to observers.
FL governor deleted voicemails from nursing home where 11 died after Irma
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Sep 26, 2017
Voicemails from the Hollywood, FL, skilled nursing facility where several residents died following Hurricane Irma were deleted by Gov. Rick Scott (R), potentially complicating the ongoing investigation...