CMS adds enhanced barrier precautions to infection control guidance
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 22, 2024
Nursing homes must begin to use enhanced barrier precautions to prevent broader transmission of multidrug-resistant organisms and to help protect patients with chronic wounds and indwelling devices, the...
The RAC is back, increasing scrutiny in a complex nursing home audit environment
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 05, 2024
Audits of skilled nursing providers are likely to increase this year, with a growing number of federal and state recovery audits adding to specialized compliance reviews announced last year.
Non-traditional lenders are ready to back nursing homes. Here’s their selection criteria
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 15, 2024
MIAMI — The lending environment will likely heat up over the course of 2024, particularly for skilled nursing providers willing to explore new relationships when unable to tap traditional sources, a...
Nursing’s already a dirty job. Regulators are slinging mud
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 07, 2024
LPNs may soon find themselves boxed out of quality, well-paying jobs in the very settings that have most often hired them in the past. It’s federal regulators threatening to do them dirty.
Back from the brink: Inside the battle to save nation’s second-largest nursing home
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 15, 2024
BALTIMORE — Two years after federal officials stripped the nation’s second largest nursing home of its Medicare and Medicaid certification, officials have outlined the 960-step plan it took to walk...
Congress advisers back permanent telehealth expansions, look to nix in-person rule for behavioral telehealth...
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 12, 2024
Maintaining Medicare beneficiaries’ access to telehealth services, especially for behavioral health, must remain an initial priority over payment reform or quality measurement, members of a congressional...
Providers get their moment with top US health officials over vaccinations
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 01, 2024
Providers and top federal officials intent on saving more seniors’ lives met at near the White House Wednesday to plan vaccination improvements.
Behavior problems — not financial motivation — most often precede forced SNF discharges: OIG
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 04, 2024
Nursing homes most often initiated a discharge because a resident’s behavior endangered the resident or others in the facility, a rationale fully within their rights, a government watchdog reported Wednesday.
Fallout from clearinghouse attack continues to mushroom
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 13, 2024
It seemed improbable the first time someone told me the fallout from the cyberattack on the Change Healthcare platform might last for weeks, or for months even.
LTC corporate execs get moderate raises, eye-popping bonuses
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 22, 2024
Corporate executives of multi-site long-term care organizations banked an average raise of 3.7% in 2023, according to a new report issued Wednesday.