A pill combining low doses of three blood pressure-reducing medications significantly increased the number of patients reaching blood pressure targets, compared with usual care.
Nursing home settles with fertilizer suppliers whose products exploded, leveling building
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 23, 2018
A Texas nursing home has settled a lawsuit filed in the wake of a 2013 fertilizer explosion that leveled the facility and forced residents to evacuate.
New York eyes ‘draconian’ screening, isolation for nursing home patients colonized with C. auris
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Kimberly Marselas
May 28, 2019
Facing the spread of the deadly and highly resistant Candida auris fungus, New York might require nursing homes and hospitals to conduct pre-admission screenings and isolate carriers and the infected.
Lawmakers target nursing homes’ biggest payer for fraud reduction
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 22, 2018
Two Congressional subcommittees focused on oversight are banding together to look at reducing fraud and waste in the Medicaid system.
Facility’s non-compliant documentation practices lead to federal crackdown
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Kimberly Marselas
May 25, 2018
Montana was hit with more than $277,000 in civil penalties after its Mental Health Nursing Care Center in Lewistown failed to meet federal documentation requirements related to mental illness care.
Push for therapy caps’ elimination takes on new urgency
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 02, 2018
Several therapy associations Thursday called on Congress to permanently end Medicare Part B caps on physical, speech and occupational therapy by adding language to a funding measure expected next week.
Trump prescription plan doesn’t include Medicare-negotiated pricing
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Kimberly Marselas
May 14, 2018
President Donald Trump’s “blueprint” for lowering prescription costs goes after pharmacy benefit managers but stops short of recommending Medicare-negotiated prices, a plank he campaigned...
$5K settlement for nursing home that declined to admit opioid dependent patient
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Kimberly Marselas
May 15, 2018
A skilled nursing facility that denied admission to a patient receiving medically assisted treatment for an opioid addiction has settled federal discrimination charges.
BREAKING NEWS: CMS gives skilled nursing 2.4% Medicare pay raise, unveils another new resident classification...
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 27, 2018
In a flurry of activity late Friday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced an $850 million pay raise for skilled nursing facilities for fiscal 2019 that comes along with major simplifications...