Providers receive two-year reprieve on non-emergency transport coverage
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 25, 2019
A month after the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services planned to repeal a requirement that state Medicaid programs cover transportation for non-emergency medical care, the agency still has not acted....
Provider’s payout in whistleblower billing fraud case approaches $60 million
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 30, 2018
A New York provider serving elderly and disabled Medicaid beneficiaries has reached a $10.3 million settlement in a state and federal case over long-term care payments.
Watchdog puts Medicaid on the spot to improve transparency
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Kimberly Marselas
May 20, 2019
Medicaid demonstration projects that could affect skilled nursing operators often lack transparency, government investigators charge.
Nurse shortages escalate hiring challenges at providers’ regional offices
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 15, 2023
Large skilled nursing chains are finding it increasingly difficult to hire and retain regional staff amid a nursing shortage and changing attitudes about work-life balance.
Medicare Advantage slowing COVID discharges to SNFs: report
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Kimberly Marselas
Sep 02, 2021
A new report finds Medicare Advantage restrictions are also creating log jams in hospitals desperate to discharge patients to post-acute care and free up needed beds.
Rural towns ravaged by healthcare and job losses with latest nursing home closures
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 07, 2019
When Minnesota’s Twin Valley Living Center closed late last year, it took with it dozens of beds intended for the town’s frail and elderly. But, as with hundreds of other skilled care communities around...
Innovaccer raises $70M
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 03, 2020
Innovaccer, a healthcare technology company with a new data-sharing framework, has raised $70 million in capital in its Series C funding round, with investments by Steadview Capital, Tiger Global, Dragoneer,...
Critics say Texas-based nursing home operator using bankruptcy to hide from dozens of lawsuits
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 29, 2018
Preferred Care of Plano filed for bankruptcy in November claiming in court that more than 160 lawsuits led to its financial demise.
Wait-and-see staffing rule exemptions meant to ‘safeguard’ residents: CMS
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 25, 2024
Skilled nursing providers will not have to go through a stand-alone application process to be exempted from provisions of a new federal staffing mandate, an official with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
CMS head: ‘We would not approve lifetime limits’ on Medicaid
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Kimberly Marselas
May 16, 2018
The head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Tuesday said her agency would not approve waivers calling for lifetime limits on Medicaid, saying officials had made that clear to states that might...