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Diversification is an increasingly important business tactic for many senior care operators, but those in skilled nursing need to ensure they view add-on services through the appropriate lens.

A new report finds Medicare Advantage restrictions are also creating log jams in hospitals desperate to discharge patients to post-acute care and free up needed beds.

If Medicare is to move to a unified payment system across all post-acute providers, those payouts should not be based on an entire episode of care.

Three Illinois nursing homes have taken legal action in an attempt slow the expansion of a transitional care-focused competitor in Chicago’s western suburbs.

A landmark report on American nursing homes issued Wednesday should serve as a “piercing wake-up call,” encouraging lawmakers to invest as they attempt to fix what a National Academies committee called...

Can you clear up confusion over quality measures and how long people remain on the report?

Wealthy seniors should pay more in Medicare premiums, according to a brief from the conservative Heritage Foundation.

Laundry and housekeeping staff are key to survey success; they buff a provider’s record or can be the source of embarrassing, costly survey findings

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services disclosed Friday that it has posted a new draft version of the 2020 MDS item sets (v1.18.0), taking many providers by surprise.

Fully three quarters of survey respondents say that their healthcare facilities have implemented crisis standards of care for personal protective equipment. The reuse rate is “disheartening,”...