With insurers on relatively solid footing, experts project LTC rates will stabilize
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Kimberly Marselas
May 09, 2024
Long-term care providers will likely see their professional liability and property insurance rates climb again this year, but experts at a global financial services firm predict those cost increases will...
Upon further review
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Julie Williamson
Apr 01, 2013
Providers recoiling from recent uptick in therapy claim audits should expect even more scrutiny in the future as regulators look to increase surveillance.
Consulate Healthcare CEO: We’re ‘growing our own’ to rebuild the brand
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 19, 2024
After virtually exiting Florida, where it dominated the skilled nursing landscape before a series of regulatory and legal challenges, Consulate Healthcare is repositioning itself as a quality provider...
Technology, advocacy required to empower workers in LTC, healthcare’s ‘hardest setting’
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Kimberly Marselas
May 20, 2024
Facing the reality that most new nurses don’t choose to enter geriatrics, skilled nursing and senior living leaders are both going back to the basics and seizing on innovation to grow their direct care...
Lawmakers tussle over nation’s first bill capping payouts over nursing home administrators’...
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Josh Henreckson
May 09, 2024
Nursing homes in Louisiana would face lesser financial threats from lawsuits under a new bill the full state Senate is set to consider.
Chiropractor sentenced to prison in SNF ‘fall reducing’ boot scheme
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Mar 04, 2016
A Missouri chiropractor who sold custom orthotic boots to nursing home residents claiming they would reduce falls was sentenced to more than four years in federal prison Wednesday.
Falls are top reason for lawsuits against skilled nursing facilities, report states
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Tim Mullaney
Oct 27, 2014
Resident falls continue to present the greatest risk of lawsuits to skilled nursing facilities and other long-term care providers, according to a recently released report from insurance company CNA.
Assisted living claims cost outpaces that of SNFs: report
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Danielle Brown
Mar 18, 2022
The average cost of insurance liability claims was lower for skilled nursing settings by more than $20,000 when compared to assisted living in a new national analysis.
Report: Resident falls top reason for lawsuits risks
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James M. Berklan
Dec 01, 2014
Falls accounted for a slightly lower proportion of closed professional liability claims that insurer CNA most recently studied, but they still were far and away the top threat to providers’ legal...
The growing cost of compliance in long-term care
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Michael K. Loucks
Nov 09, 2010
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will expand compliance-related regulations for skilled nursing facilities.