While overall survey frequency improved, feds find widespread lag persists on follow-up inspections
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Kimberly Marselas
Aug 06, 2024
Twenty states reduced their recertification survey backlog by at least 50% in 2023, but the latest data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services underscores persistent problems with untimely follow-up...
Some providers ‘hurting terribly’ as CMS schizophrenia audit penalties drag on
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Kimberly Marselas
Aug 06, 2024
A year and a half after the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services began auditing thousands of nursing homes for inappropriate schizophrenia diagnoses, providers are raising concerns that the quality...
Without planning, TEAM model will cost SNFs money on 5 key procedures: experts
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Kimberly Marselas
Aug 07, 2024
The latest evolution of a federal push to improve care coordination and reduce costs across settings may spell lost revenue for skilled nursing providers who are unprepared, two experts warned this week.
Payment reform, focus on physical improvements required to reduce risk of another nursing home disaster:...
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 01, 2024
A trio of prominent nursing home researchers warned Monday that without new investment in nursing home infrastructure, residents and staff will remain at “substantial risk” for a repeat of the poor...
Also in the News for Wednesday, July 10, 2024
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 09, 2024
FHCA awards $70K in scholarships to LTC staff … New state law allows RNs to work before passing licensing exam … One-third of Parkinson’s patients show cognitive symptoms shortly after diagnosis:...
Skipping tech over price tag an ‘opportunity lost’ for hesitant nursing homes
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 24, 2024
While it remains difficult to quantify how investments in technology are paying off, some skilled nursing providers say they are buying into more options because today’s margins don’t afford them missed...
Federal court stops lawsuit seeking nearly $1B over ‘improper’ nursing home licensing
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 02, 2024
A federal appeals court won’t reopen a nearly $1 billion lawsuit against a Florida nursing home operator accused of racketeering-like behavior in a lengthy civil case.
CMS issues first nursing home staffing rule enforcement guidance
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 19, 2024
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services this week updated guidance to be used by surveyors weighing nursing homes’ compliance with expanded facility assessment requirements included in the minimum...
Workforce dip in May reignites nursing home worries about caregiver supply
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 10, 2024
The number of workers in skilled nursing facilities declined in May, according to federal data published Friday. That stops a months-long positive trend for the sector.
First-of-its-kind resident lawsuit targets state health department’s late nursing home inspections
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Kimberly Marselas
May 20, 2024
A group of nursing home residents in Maryland has filed the first known lawsuit seeking to compel a state to meet requirements that it inspect all of its skilled nursing facilities at least annually.