CMS to test cash incentives for nursing home quality, efficiency efforts
Mar 30, 2009
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Friday announced a new, four-state demonstration project to test whether cash incentives will help improve quality and efficiency in nursing homes.
DAY ONE: McKnight’s third annual Online Expo to kick off with webcasts on technology, wound care...
Mar 25, 2009
The third annual online trade show for the long-term care field starts today with a whole range of educational webcasts and virtual vendor booths. It’s not too late to register for the two-day event...
ONE DAY TO GO: Medicare, Medicaid face drastic cuts under new administration, McKnight’s Online...
Mar 24, 2009
Under President Obama’s budget plan, Medicare and Medicaid spending would be slashed by up to $295 billion over the next 10 years, the Congressional Budget Office has estimated.
TWO DAYS AND COUNTING: Expo session on IT comes on heels of naming of new national health information...
Mar 23, 2009
Long-term care providers are liable to hear the name David Blumenthal, M.D., a lot in the coming months and years if all goes as planned at the Department of Health and Human Services. On Friday, HHS named...
Regulators see need to issue new guide for dining assistants in nursing homes
Mar 17, 2009
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has completed a guide for providers who want to employ dining assistants in their facilities. After a drawn out battle, CMS agreed five years ago to allow the...
Nursing homes oppose proposal to display ratings
Mar 01, 2009
A proposal that would require facilities through-out the state to prominently show their new federal star ratings has received pushback from nursing homes.
Ask the care expert: how to understand state deficiency scores
CMS: No changes imminent to staffing formula for Five-Star rating
Mar 10, 2009
Federal health officials with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services say they are considering tweaking their new Five-Star nursing home ranking system, but altering the way staffing is graded will...
Sebelius gets HHS nod, DeParle tabbed to become health czar
Mar 03, 2009
President Obama officially nominated Kathleen Sebelius, the democratic governor of Kansas, for the job of Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services on Monday. Sebelius had been considered...
Federal court finds 17 Indiana nursing home violations were not issued maliciously
Feb 26, 2009
A federal appeals court has ruled against an Indiana nursing home, which successfully contested 16 of 17 Medicaid-participation and state licensing violations. The court did not find that state health...