Best of the Best: McKnight’s announces inaugural Pinnacle Award winners … COVID-19 illness caught early in pandemic linked to later depression … Analysis: About 45% of nursing home residents are...
Brooks-LaSure: Medicare poised to re-evaluate coverage of new Alzheimer’s drugs
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Alicia Lasek
Dec 12, 2022
In a Milken Institute summit session, the CMS administrator said that Medicare’s door is open to evaluating new data on emerging Alzheimer’s drug candidates.
WHO: Some superbugs became more antibiotic resistant during the pandemic
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Alicia Lasek
Dec 12, 2022
Bacteria that cause healthcare-associated bloodstream infections gained increased resistance to last-resort antibiotics, according to a new report.
Rising omicron variants will likely defeat current mABs treatments: study
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Alicia Lasek
Dec 12, 2022
Two emerging omicron subvariants will likely evade monoclonal antibody treatment. Antiviral drugs, however, should retain their efficacy, investigators have found.
Clinical briefs for Monday, Dec. 12
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Alicia Lasek
Dec 12, 2022
With repeal of Pentagon’s vaccine mandate, will CMS mandate remain a sure thing? … Hospital beds are 80% full nationwide, only 6% due to COVID … AHCA urges nursing homes to get involved in ’game-changing’...
For-profit providers still on hot seat in final House COVID report
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Joe Bush
Dec 12, 2022
Months after its first attack, a key House COVID subcommittee on Friday targeted five of the nation’s five largest for-profit nursing home companies over low staffing and wages and slow vaccine booster...
White House message on COVID-19 bivalent booster: ‘Don’t wait’
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Dec 12, 2022
Getting the updated bivalent COVID-19 booster is the single most important thing that older adults can do to protect their health, COVID-19 Response Coordinator Ashish Jha, MD, MPH, said during a White...
MedPAC recommends fresh Medicare cuts for skilled nursing
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Joe Bush
Dec 12, 2022
MedPAC Friday recommended a 3% cut to Medicare base payments made to skilled nursing facilities in 2024.
Also in the News for Monday, Dec. 12
By
Joe Bush
Dec 12, 2022
LeadingAge advocates for inclusion of nursing homes in a National Provider Directory … SC lawmakers push to mandate security cameras at nursing home entrances/exits … COVID hospitalizations for seniors...
Nurses back Senate legislation that would lift restrictions on APRNs’ scope of practice
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Alicia Lasek
Dec 09, 2022
The legislation would eliminate outdated federal barriers to care, authorizing advanced practice nurses to perform tasks such as providing all mandatory examinations in skilled nursing facilities, advocates...