My son is a freshman at a public university in the state of Washington that made the abrupt decision, late afternoon on the last day one could withdraw and receive a tuition refund, to go to online instruction...
Housing department announces $120 million in funding to help with Olmstead compliance
By
Tim Mullaney
Mar 14, 2014
State housing agencies can apply for $120 million in new federal funding to support housing options for disabled people transitioning out of long-term care facilities, the Department of Housing and Urban...
AL court rules in favor of health insurer
By
Elizabeth Newman
Apr 02, 2012
Alabama’s high court has ordered a nursing home’s breach of contract suit against the state’s largest health insurer to be dismissed.
Court: Medicaid may collect SNF room-and-board outlays
By
James M. Berklan
Jun 05, 2017
In a ruling that could create ripple effects on state Medicaid programs around the country, Nebraska’s highest court decreed that the state may pursue payment from beneficiaries for room-and-board...
AHCA: Statistical sampling an improper ‘sledgehammer’
By
James M. Berklan
May 04, 2016
The nation’s largest association for nursing home and other long-term care operators has publicly expressed its staunch disapproval of a federal prosecution method that takes only small slices of...
Court: Private parties can’t sue SNFs to release documents
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Jul 22, 2016
Nursing homes can’t be sued by private parties looking to access the facilities’ documents, a state high court has ruled.
A Trump success story
By
John O'Connor
Sep 06, 2017
President Trump may have struggled mightily to kill Obamacare. But he is clearly enjoying early success in at least one area: labor policy.
Negligent homicide charges are reduced in ventilator case
By
Marty Stempniak
Dec 05, 2018
A New York jury acquitted three former nursing home workers of homicide charges stemming from allegations that they ignored alarms warning of a disconnected ventilator.
Battle revived over contraceptive mandate in Little Sisters of the Poor case
By
Marty Stempniak
Jan 16, 2019
A state attorney general can continue to challenge a Catholic nursing home provider’s exemption from the contraceptive mandate in the Affordable Care Act.
New Medicare guidance guarantees that same-sex married couples can live in the same nursing home
By
Tim Mullaney
Aug 30, 2013
Nursing homes may see more same-gender married couples in the near future in light of federal regulators’ first guidance in response to a recent change in the Defense of Marriage Act.