OIG updates FAQs on fraud and abuse authority … June job growth ‘solid, but not broad-based’ … Global crisis: Japan sees 81 bankrupt nursing homes in early 2024, while half of Australian nursing...
Grand Health Care settles with DOJ for $21M in rehab upcoding case
By
James M. Berklan
Jul 10, 2024
The Grand Health Care System and its 12 affiliated skilled nursing facilities will pay more than $21.3 million to settle allegations of therapy upcoding that involved a quota system for keeping billing...
How the feds can pay for the nursing home staffing mandate
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James M. Berklan
Jul 11, 2024
Long-term care providers are being indoctrinated yet again to a harsh life lesson that goes something like this: He with the biggest stick usually wins. Sub in “deepest pockets” for “biggest stick”...
Out-of-pocket costs for diabetes drugs rise for those aging into Medicare, new report finds
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Kristen Fischer
Jul 09, 2024
As people with type 2 diabetes age into the Medicare program, there’s the potential for more not to stick with treatment and/or to experience complications from the disease, a new study shows. The report...
Meet Shelly Koch, 2024 Rising Star honoree
By
Foster Stubbs
Jul 10, 2024
Shelly Koch, executive director, operations-home-based services at Evangelical Lutheran good Samaritan Society in Sioux Falls, SD, is a Rising Star honoree in the 2024 McKnight’s Women of Distinction...
Meet Lesly Martinez, 2024 Rising Star honoree
By
Foster Stubbs
Jul 10, 2024
Lesly Martinez, regional vice president at Atria Senior Living in Louisville, KY, is a Rising Star honoree in the 2024 McKnight’s Women of Distinction awards program.
What nursing homes need, versus what they get
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Stephen A. Moses
Jul 08, 2024
Senior living’s caregiving sectors — nursing homes, assisted living and home care — share problems and needs in varying degrees. But what they get from long-term care (LTC) research is seldom what...
MedPAC disappoints with lacking skilled nursing commentary, no action on Medicare Advantage prior authorization...
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 13, 2024
A Congressional advisory commission on Thursday declined to issue recommendations on improving Medicare Advantage prior authorizations, MA data transparency, or lowering payments to inpatient rehabilitation...
HHS officials double down on push for ‘sweeping’ nursing home staffing, infection control reforms
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Josh Henreckson
Jun 03, 2024
Improving nursing home staffing and infection control vulnerabilities continues to be a key policy objective for the US Department of Health and Human Services, according to two officials from its Office...
Meet Janet Simpson, 2024 Spirit Award winner
By
Foster Stubbs
Jul 01, 2024
Janet Simpson, vice president of network operations at WesleyLife in Johnston, IA, is a Spirit Award winner in the 2024 McKnight’s Women of Distinction awards program.