Providers rally against looming cuts for standard lab tests
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 16, 2023
Lower laboratory testing fees are driving out competition and potentially limiting care for seniors who live in nursing homes, warns a coalition of providers fighting to replace the law that mandates rate...
State courts push back on nursing homes’ federal right to arbitrate
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 12, 2023
A spate of recent battles over arbitration agreements may force courts and lawmakers to once again tackle who can enter one on behalf of a nursing home resident — and whether they can ever be mandated...
SCOTUS ruling clears way for more cases, big verdicts against nursing homes
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 09, 2023
Nursing homes under county or state control could see an explosion of lawsuits following a Thursday US Supreme Court ruling maintaining the right of nursing home residents and their survivors to sue in...
BREAKING: Supreme Court upholds right to sue public nursing homes in case with wide implications
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 08, 2023
The US Supreme Court on Thursday morning ruled that nursing home residents and their survivors can sue publicly owned facilities to protect their rights under the Federal Nursing Home Reform Act.
Visa change is new staffing hope as prospect of immigration reform fades
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 08, 2023
Just weeks ago, long-term care providers were rallying behind the Dignity Act, a bipartisan, wide-ranging piece of immigration reform that would add opportunities for guest workers while also tackling...
‘Impetus’ ignored: LeadingAge CEO calls on Congress, White House to act on broader threats...
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 02, 2023
Federal lawmakers have so far failed to seize on a critical change that could shore up the aging services sector and improve access to care for the nation’s aging population, the top advocate for nonprofit...
Nursing discrimination rampant in residential care facilities: study
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 01, 2023
Nurses working in nursing homes are among the most likely to face discrimination on the job, with 88% saying in a new survey that they had seen or experienced workplace racism by patients.
Also in the News for Friday, May 19
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Kimberly Marselas
May 19, 2023
Governor leans on a pandemic workaround — simulation training — in effort to boost nursing pipeline … ‘Organic’ immigration reform efforts necessary to move Congress, expert says … Stress-management...
‘Impossible’ Medicare Advantage denials decried during Senate hearing
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Kimberly Marselas
May 18, 2023
A Senate subcommittee Wednesday sent letters to the nation’s largest Medicare Advantage insurers, demanding they reveal internal documents that illustrate how they make coverage determinations.
House COVID panel spreads nursing home blame, looks to next pandemic
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Kimberly Marselas
May 18, 2023
Three years after the height of the pandemic forever transformed nursing homes, a new Congressional panel took a stab Wednesday at finding someone to blame for deadly COVID-19 miscalculations.