Congress advisers back permanent telehealth expansions, look to nix in-person rule for behavioral telehealth...
By
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...
Also in the News for Wednesday, Aug. 2
By
Kimberly Marselas
Aug 02, 2023
Career ladder programs help providers keep workers. Here’s how … NIH opens long COVID clinical trials through RECOVER Initiative … AHA, AMA, payers tell CMS to skip electronic prior authorization...
The introduction of a Senate bill intended to block the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services from implementing its proposed nursing home staffing mandate was met roundly with applause from providers...
An Illinois rehabilitation and skilled nursing center has been fined $25,000 after a certified nurse aide admitted to posting a partially nude photo of a resident on social media.
Kindred confirms its sale for $4.1 billion in multi-firm deal
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Kimberly Marselas
Dec 20, 2017
Kindred Healthcare announced Tuesday that its board has agreed to an acquisition by Humana Inc. and two private equity partners in all cash deal.
Also in the News for Wednesday, May 10
By
Kimberly Marselas
May 10, 2023
Healthcare Realty Trust Inc. plans to sell its final skilled nursing assets … Nursing home wound care consultant settles False Claims case … New GAO report adds to criticism of costly, trouble-plagued...
Nursing homes find visitor COVID-19 testing back in play
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Kimberly Marselas
Dec 22, 2022
Health officials in at least one major US city are once again asking nursing home visitors to take COVID tests before entering, as community transmission there has ticked dangerously high this month.
Healthcare Transactions sells another Maryland SNF
By
Kimberly Marselas
Sep 18, 2018
Healthcare Transactions Group Inc. arranged the sale of a 118-bed skilled nursing facility in in Carroll County, MD.
Worth the risk
By
Kimberly Marselas
Nov 06, 2017
Owners and operators of long-term care facilities can entice increasingly discerning financial partners into niche projects — if they go about it the right way
LGBT Americans worry about getting into, living in long-term care
By
Kimberly Marselas
Apr 09, 2018
More than 1 million Americans already over 65 identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or trans, but many in the generation behind them worry that now widely-accepted label may still make it difficult to find...