To help elderly patients, CMS should prohibit PBM fees – not reform them
By
Alan G. Rosenbloom
Feb 16, 2018
Over just the past few years, the nation’s three largest pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) – CVS Caremark, Express Scripts and Optum Rx – have come to control more than 80% of prescriptions...
Love hurts PAC relationships
By
Renee Kinder
Feb 15, 2018
When it comes to developing strategic partnerships across the post-acute care spectrum, love can cloud our judgment.
Behavior management plans for challenging behaviors
By
Richard Juman, PsyD
Feb 14, 2018
“Mrs. Jones” is in the middle of the dayroom, once again engaging in verbal abusiveness that disrupts the residents, families and staff on her unit.
The therapy cap reborn
By
Jean Wendland Porter
Jan 26, 2018
At the end of 2017, Congress recessed before a decision was made on the repeal of the Part B Therapy Cap that we’ve been living with, working around, and appealing since 1998.
There’s no time like the past, wherever you are
By
James M. Berklan
Jan 26, 2018
Let there be no more questions about whether creating long-term care facilities to reflect different eras is a good idea.
Government funding showdown includes special LTC drama
By
James M. Berklan
Jan 19, 2018
As drama rages over whether Congress will allow the federal government to grind to a halt Friday night due to a funding tug-of-war, long-term care providers will anxiously watch to see if a repeal of Medicare...
Preventing Legionnaires’ disease in LTC
By
Amanda Thornton, RN, MSN
Jan 12, 2018
It is not often that we think of Legionnaires’ disease, the form of pneumonia brought on by inhaling aerosolized water containing L pneumophila bacteria. But when the illness rears its ugly head,...
SNFs: Time to step up, not give up
By
Anne Tumlinson
Jan 12, 2018
The design of the BPCI-Advanced program appears, at first glance, to offer little opportunity for SNFs looking to redesign their business models and take episodic healthcare risk alongside hospitals and...
4 considerations for building your emergency preparedness plan
By
Diane Doherty
Jan 09, 2018
From Hurricanes Irma and Harvey to the California wildfires, there has been no shortage of extreme weather around the country.
Understand the resident to understand the behavior: Part 2
By
Richard Juman, PsyD
Jan 08, 2018
I am frequently asked to consult about “inappropriate” behavior in skilled nursing facilities. The question is usually something like: “We have a resident who is doing ‘X behavior’—...