While regulators are working furiously to push through a comprehensive nursing home reform agenda backed by the Biden administration, providers remain concerned about an earlier change whose impact is...
CMS developing direct-pay model to test on seniors, others
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 25, 2018
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced it is exploring a direct-provider contracting model. It is the first payment reform initiative to result from the agency innovation center’s...
An Iowa prosecutor is dropping felony charges against a nursing home operator accused of misusing cash from a resident’s personal funds.
To control private equity, legal experts suggest government sharpen existing tools
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 25, 2022
While the Biden administration is targeting private equity firms that invest in nursing homes for reforms, two attorneys well-versed in fraud argue that existing mechanisms could deter private equity from...
Biden targets nursing homes
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 01, 2022
President Joe Biden made nursing home history March 1, when he included the sector in his first State of the Union address. Biden pledged a crackdown on private-equity investors and vowed tougher oversight.
Coming to a bus stop near you: Better nursing home conversations
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 29, 2022
There’s a dichotomy in the nation’s capital when it comes to treatment of caregivers who provide for the aging and the aging services system itself.
Senator demands VA answers on oversight of state-run vets’ homes
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Kimberly Marselas
Sep 02, 2021
The Department of Veterans Affairs has three weeks to deliver an accounting of the inspection and quality control processes it uses to assess a network of more than 150 state-run veterans homes.
Nicole Blanchard
Jun 27, 2019
Nicole Blanchard is a 2022 editorial intern for McKnight’s Long-Term Care News.
‘Dumping’ cases: Court rules patients can sue states if a nursing home refuses readmission
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 21, 2019
Medicaid-covered nursing home residents have a right to sue states that do not have a fair appeals process in the case of unwanted discharges, a federal court ruled last week.
Staffing relief ahead? House members launch new LTC caucus amid reform push
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 08, 2022
A new congressional caucus will focus on concerns specific to the long-term care sector, lawmakers and provider representatives announced at a briefing here Tuesday.