Are you effectively managing your managed care billing?
By
Kristy Brown
Jul 12, 2024
With the announcement of the nursing home minimum staffing rule, I asked myself the same question as operators nationwide: how on earth are we going to pay for this? Even if nursing homes could find...
Expert panel identifies 2 steps providers should take to lure back departed workers
By
Josh Henreckson
Jun 24, 2024
The long-term care sector’s ongoing workforce challenges may at times seem too complicated to solve, but providers should take action aimed at both big-picture and internal, work culture solutions.
Independence, and the freedom to make your own choices
By
Julie Thorson
Jul 03, 2024
Fireworks, grilling, time with friends and family. These are all hallmarks of a July 4 holiday weekend. As we started preparing for it, I started to think more about “independence” and what it means...
McKnight’s One on One with Inovonics
Jul 23, 2024
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Improving long-term care, with laser precision
By
John O'Connor
Jun 30, 2024
The cutting-edge uses for laser weeding’s innovative technology are almost endless, and extend into long-term care.
Building a coveted ‘destination workplace’ requires diverse investments, active listening to staff:...
By
Josh Henreckson
Jun 27, 2024
Faced with today’s complex array of financial, staffing and regulatory challenges, senior care operators need to rely on a broad range of solutions, a panel of experts said
Providers, I-SNPs primed and ‘pleading’ for greater role in value-based care
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 21, 2024
The unrelenting push toward value-based care should compel skilled nursing providers to grab the reins, even after years of regulators failing to invite them more fully into the process.
Also in the News for Monday, May 13, 2024
By
Kimberly Marselas
May 13, 2024
AARP tells Congress to reject efforts to overturn nursing home staffing rule … OIG finds CMS incentive payments for faster COVID test processing were vulnerable to abuse … VA improperly approved nearly...
Also in the News for Tuesday, May 14, 2024
By
Kimberly Marselas
May 14, 2024
OIG wants New Mexico to repay nearly $120M for Medicaid nursing home capitated payments … National HealthCare Corp net operating revenues increase by 10.2% year over year … Nursing home staffing rule...
The saddle in the garage
By
Gary Tetz
Jun 07, 2024
For decades after his last ride, it rested on a sawhorse in a darkened corner of my father’s garage — his favorite Western saddle.