States to suffer under weight of continued long-term care spending, consulting firm finds
Jun 23, 2010
A new report highlights the potential detrimental impact of long-term care commitments on state budgets.
Affordable Care Act authorizes $3 billion to keep elderly and disabled out of nursing homes
By
McKnight's Staff
Mar 02, 2012
The Affordable Care Act has freed up $3 billion in grant money available to states looking to keep elderly and disabled individuals out of long-term care institutions.
Support for Medicare-style, government long-term care insurance program surges, large AP-University of...
By
Tim Mullaney
May 20, 2014
The idea of a government-run long-term care insurance program similar to Medicare has become much more popular in the last year, according to the findings of a large nationwide survey. Independent research...
One in five long-term elder care patients have MRSA in their noses
Apr 27, 2010
The secret to identifying people with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isn’t right under our nose—it’s in it, new research suggests.
CMS crackdown doubles Medicare removals
By
McKnight's Staff
Jun 07, 2013
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has removed 14,663 healthcare providers and suppliers from the Medicare program in the last two years, the agency announced Thursday. The figure more than doubles...
Long-term care is becoming primarily about dementia, report states
By
Tim Mullaney
Sep 20, 2013
The number of people with long-term care needs is set to triple by 2050, and dementia care will be increasingly at the forefront for providers, according to a new report from Alzheimer’s Disease...
CMS offers a deal to hospitals to cut Medicare appeals backlog
By
Tim Mullaney
Sep 03, 2014
In an effort to trim the huge backlog of Medicare claims appeals that has stymied long-term care and other providers, the government is offering a new way to settle some cases. Hospitals could receive...
Nursing homes to be judged by 21 new quality measures on federal website
Mar 04, 2011
The National Quality Forum on Wednesday came out in support of 21 measures to be used to care for both long-term nursing home residents and short-stay patients. These measures will be included in the Centers...
Report: 20 percent of nursing home residents receive antipsychotics
By
Kristen Fischer
Mar 20, 2024
A new report highlights the high number of nursing home residents who are prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Authors of the report say that, in most cases, the drugs aren’t clinically justified.
People still misunderstand, avoid thinking about long-term care, poll shows
By
McKnight's Staff
Apr 25, 2013
Americans don’t like to think about their eventual long-term care needs and don’t have a realistic understanding of how the long-term care system works, according to a poll released Wednesday....