Ask the payment expert: What can we do to ensure we’re being reimbursed accurately?
By
Eleisha Wilkes, RN, RAC-CTA, RAC-CT, DNS-CT
Oct 01, 2021
We’re seeing some Medicare Advantage plans change to payment by “levels.” What can we do to ensure we’re being reimbursed accurately?
Ask the legal expert: What form of proof must an employee provide when claiming a religious exemption...
By
Norris Cunningham
Oct 01, 2021
What form of proof must an employee provide when claiming a religious exemption from an employer’s Covid-19 vaccination mandate?
How to do it … Heed COVID’s rehab lessons
By
John Hall
Oct 01, 2021
Rehabilitation therapists are experts at helping patients relearn the skills needed to lead functional lives. Over the course of the pandemic, therapists themselves have learned to improvise on the fly...
Do seniors even count?
By
John O'Connor
Oct 01, 2021
The knives are out, now that former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo (D) has resigned.
A rare feat: Two big wins in just 20 hours for SNFs
By
James M. Berklan
Oct 01, 2021
Nursing home operators must have been speeding to buy lottery tickets on Sept. 10. After two days of unexpectedly good news from the White House and regulators, who could have blamed anyone if they wanted ...
Asking for PE alternatives
By
Kimberly Marselas
Oct 01, 2021
When Diversicare Healthcare Services’ 61 skilled nursing facilities (and the rest of its holdings) move to a new owner later this year, it likely will become much more difficult to see what’s happening...
There’s no time to cry
By
Gary Tetz
Oct 01, 2021
If you’re close to my aging vintage, you remember those adorable pioneers on the TV show “Little House on the Prairie.” Now we’re living in their world. Menaced by fires, floods, climate change...
Production rebounds, brings security innovations to life
By
John Hall
Oct 01, 2021
While the pandemic slowed some rollouts, technology on the horizon will help provide safer solutions for LTC.
Pharmacists key players in tracking COVID meds, info
By
John Hall
Oct 01, 2021
Managing medications is just part of the job as the needed pandemic treatments, policies keep evolving.
Long-awaited relief funding creates rush
By
Kimberly Marselas
Oct 01, 2021
Applications were expected to begin rolling in punctually on Sept. 29 as long-term care providers, among others, seek their share of a new, $25.5 billion round of coronavirus relief funding.