Experts favor new payment system rewarding higher quality and more efficient care
Nov 04, 2008
A new survey of healthcare leaders finds that almost all feel the current healthcare payment system is fundamentally flawed and must be reformed. An overwhelming majority favor bonuses for high-quality...
Medicaid questions persist in wake of Obama victory
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McKnight's Staff
Nov 12, 2012
While a controversial Republican-supported Medicaid block-grants option will be off the table after last week’s presidential election, uncertainty will continue about nursing homes’ No. 1 source...
Former CMS boss says reforms underway, regardless of how Supreme Court rules
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McKnight's Staff
Jun 26, 2012
Even if the Supreme Court repeals the Affordable Care Act, its early reforms have already delivered promising benefits, according to former Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Donald...
Editors’ Blog: The upside of labor unification
Apr 15, 2009
It sounds daunting, but the unification of the U.S. labor movement may not be all negative for business. Immigration reform could benefit, for example, from strong union backing. And that could be good...
Editors’ Blog: Your thoughts on long-term care reform
Jun 25, 2009
Reduce administrative costs. Change the Medicaid payment system. Value the resident. These are all ideas McKnight’s readers have offered on the question of how to reform the long-term care system.
Editors’ Blog: Daschle drops out
Feb 04, 2009
Tom Daschle, who was tapped to be the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, withdrew his nomination Tuesday. That could throw off the president’s ambitious healthcare reform agenda.
Forum focuses on chronic disease management
Apr 09, 2009
The important role of chronic disease management in healthcare reform was the topic of conversation Tuesday among former lawmakers and healthcare advocates at a forum in Wisconsin.
Providers support immigration bill in Senate
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Haymarket Media
Mar 30, 2006
A controversial immigration reform bill could help ease the staffing shortage at nursing homes, a major long-term care association asserts.
Senate bill would delay start date of RUG-IV by one year
Jan 15, 2010
A provision in the Senate healthcare reform proposal would delay by one year implementation of version four of the Resource Utilization Group (RUG-IV).
Report: U.S. faces cultural roadblock to healthcare reform
Nov 25, 2008
Comprehensive healthcare reform may still be a ways off, but it isn’t necessarily the economy or political will standing in the way. It is our history, according to a study.