Aspects of the Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor program came under intense scrutiny during a Senate Finance Committee hearing in June. Lawmakers questioned auditor payment incentives and a sluggish appeals...
Sector growth draws interest
By
John O'Connor
Nov 01, 2012
Unlike other real estate options, seniors housing continued to grow throughout the Great Recession.
Surging rents get due credit
By
Elizabeth Newman
Sep 01, 2011
There’s cautious optimism in the seniors housing sector. Occupancy rates have held firm and rent growth has shown slight gains, according to second quarter data released by the National Investment...
McKnight’s Roundtable: The new world of post-acute care
By
Liza Berger
Dec 01, 2010
Operators dissect how MDS 3.0, ACOs and more are changing the long-term care mindset
4th Online Expo brings major topics to you
By
James M. Berklan
Mar 01, 2010
McKnight’s annual virtual meeting and trade show again will offer five free CEUs
Election 2008: Long-Term Care? Huh?
By
Liza Berger
Oct 01, 2008
Long-term care is an increasingly important issue—just not on the campaign trail
New plans for LTC? They’re not saying
By
Liza Berger
Oct 01, 2008
When you think about it, long-term care is really a thorny issue—particularly the financing side of it. As Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security resources dwindle, and more people grow older and live...
An idea whose time has (finally) come
By
John O'Connor
Sep 01, 2008
Like many revolutions, long-term care’s recent embrace of technology-based brain fitness tools began quietly. Then it exploded.
Salaries increase for DONs, administrators
By
James M. Berklan
Sep 01, 2007
Good nursing leaders are a hot commodity – at least if the most recently compiled salary findings are to be believed.