Deficit-reduction plan to gain $600 billion from lower provider payments and higher beneficiary premiums
By
McKnight's Staff
Feb 21, 2013
The co-chairs of President Barack Obama’s deficit reduction commission are promoting a way to achieve $600 billion in healthcare “savings” in a new version of their deficit reduction...
AHCA sends strong message as fiscal cliff cuts get closer
By
John O'Connor
Dec 02, 2012
As lawmakers try to get “on message” about the looming fiscal cliff, the American Health Care Association sent a message of its own.
$65 billion in Medicare cuts to rock U.S. nursing homes over 10 years, analysis shows
Aug 02, 2012
American nursing homes are staring down a cumulative Medicare funding reduction worth $65 billion over the next 10 years, a first of it’s kind 50-state analysis finds.
House votes to delay 2% Medicare sequestration cuts, but Senate battle and another 4% reduction loom
By
Kimberly Marselas
Mar 22, 2021
A bill to delay a 2% across-the-board cut to Medicare that would affect all of its providers passed the House of Representatives in a bipartisan vote Friday. But its future remains murky.
House passes spending cut bill containing Medicare spending cuts
By
McKnight's Staff
May 11, 2012
The House on Thursday passed spending cut legislation that included a 2% cut in Medicare spending.
AHCA’s Parkinson ‘cautiously optimistic,’ despite sequester and other looming fiscal...
By
John O'Connor
Mar 07, 2013
A newly enacted sequester may be trimming Medicare payments to skilled nursing operators, but the sector remains strong and poised for future growth. That assessment was delivered Wednesday by the head...
Senators approve Medicare provider relief
By
Danielle Brown
Dec 10, 2021
Long-term care providers are closer to avoiding Medicare cuts that would reduce reimbursements by nearly 10% after a Senate vote Thursday evening.
Providers seek extension of 2% Medicare sequester cut relief through 2021
By
Danielle Brown
Oct 23, 2020
Four of the nation’s top provider groups representing long-term care, home health and hospitals are calling on Congress to extend a moratorium on the 2% Medicare sequester cuts into 2021 and for the...
Katrina multiple homicide case may go to jury today
By
Haymarket Media
Sep 07, 2007
Jury deliberations were expected to begin as early as this afternoon in the St. Rita’s nursing home trial involving 35 resident drowning deaths after Hurricane Katrina.
Lawmakers say CMS should ban Medicare Advantage’s use of AI to deny care
By
Josh Henreckson
Jun 26, 2024
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services should consider banning artificial intelligence from being used to deny Medicare Advantage coverage pending a “systematic review,” a group of 49 congressional...