Providers appeal for improved quality measures, less duplicate paperwork
By
Danielle Brown
Aug 19, 2019
A major provider advocate appealed to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ solicitation for feedback on how to improve its “Patients Over Paperwork”...
Department of Veteran Affairs piloting program to keep veterans at home — and out of nursing homes
Feb 02, 2020
A program that aims to reduce nursing home care costs by caring for veterans at home, as opposed to institutions, is being piloted across five United States cities.
Providers ‘fully committed’ to new COVID vaccination reporting requirement
By
Danielle Brown
May 06, 2021
Maryland long-term care providers are welcoming a new mandate that requires providers to report weekly COVID vaccination data to the state’s Department of Health.
Pandemic is forcing providers to be ‘catalysts of change’ for long-term care sector, association...
By
Danielle Brown
Nov 13, 2020
The leader of the nation’s second largest nursing home association challenged providers to be “catalysts of change” for the long-term care sector as it works to move past the coronavirus public health...
CMS to update preadmission resident screening demands
By
Danielle Brown
Apr 01, 2020
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services disclosed in February that it is in the process of revising the Preadmission Screening and Resident Review regulations. It would be the rule’s first major...
House hearing could address long-term care issues
By
Danielle Brown
Nov 11, 2019
Nursing home care and facility use of antipsychotics are among the issues that could be discussed during a federal hearing slated for later this week.
CMS edicts bring tougher survey conditions to nursing homes
By
Danielle Brown
Nov 15, 2021
More oversight is coming for nursing home providers after the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services directed surveyors to take a more critical look at nurse competency and residents’ quality of care...
SavaSeniorCare settles ‘unfounded’ False Claims Act allegations for $11.2M
By
Danielle Brown
May 24, 2021
Atlanta-based nursing home operator SavaSeniorCare said Friday it is settling “unfounded” and longstanding allegations of billing Medicare for unnecessary therapy services. The Department of Justice...
Lawmakers accuse state official of downplaying nursing home deaths
By
Danielle Brown
Aug 06, 2020
New York state health officials are being accused of releasing incomplete data on nursing home COVID-19 deaths to support controversial state policies implemented during the public health crisis.
BREAKING [updated]: CMS vaccine mandate blocked in 10 states by federal judge
By
Danielle Brown
Nov 29, 2021
The Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate for healthcare workers has been at least temporarily halted in 10 states following an order issued by a federal judge Monday afternoon.