GOP bill discounting Medicare bad debt ignites skilled nursing backlash
Dec 12, 2011
Advocates for skilled nursing operators started a counteroffensive Monday in Washington to fight bad-debt provisions of a new House GOP spending bill. Introduced Friday, the bill asks skilled nursing operators...
Bill would exempt providers from automatic Medicare cuts
Dec 02, 2011
Many long-term care providers feel they earned at least a moral victory late last month when the president’s so-called debt-reduction “super committee” could not agree on recommendations....
Will they or won’t they (recommend payment cuts)? All eyes on the debt reduction ‘super committee’
Nov 17, 2011
Providers, and the rest of the country, will learn Wednesday whether President Obama’s congressional “super committee” has agreed on a combination of funding cuts and tax increases that...