Delays and payment denials: The dark side of backlogged surveys
Jul 04, 2023
What’s top of mind when attorney Adam Guetzow thinks of the legal and regulatory issues swirling around nursing homes in 2023? Dealing with the realities of perpetually understaffed regulatory agencies...
Staffing, Medicaid policy force nursing homes to ‘self-limit’ access
Apr 09, 2024
One in four skilled nursing beds is offline in Pennsylvania, with providers tying reduced access directly to a lack of frontline staff and Medicaid payment shortfalls. But that’s no one-state issue,...
Public health emergency revocation will unleash ‘traps for the unwary’
May 09, 2023
While much has been made of staffing flexibilities and waivers ending after May 11, the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency also brings with it critical new enforcement concerns for skilled nursing...
Rethinking the frontline for recruiting success
Oct 24, 2022
In today’s labor market, it’s easy to see why skilled nursing providers are tempted to throw money at any potential employee and especially those applying for hard-to-fill positions. But when it comes...
How providers can achieve control with risky value-based pay schemes, diversification
Sep 13, 2022
Fred Bentley of ATI Advisory joins McKnight’s Executive Editor James M. Berklan in a Newsmakers podcast to discuss what value-based payment options are growing in popularity, and what providers of all...
How to fish for SNF patients upstream and prove ‘a happy employee is a good employee’
Sep 27, 2022
Thrive Personalized Medical Rehabilitation CEO Brad Haber discusses why he is championing a “more modern,” clinically complex approach to long-term care. He joins McKnight’s Executive Editor James...
Banking on long-term care’s resilience and proceeding with optimism
Mar 18, 2024
Lisa McCracken has observed and strategized within the long-term care sector for more than two decades. Now, as the new director of research and analytics for the National Investment Center for Seniors...
‘Shedding a light … will be better for all,’ top defense attorney says of feds’ nursing...
Mar 20, 2023
Providers should not necessarily fear regulators’ ramped up scrutiny efforts on nursing home operators and private-equity investors in the long-term care space.
Nursing homes not planning for value-based care are falling behind
Jan 09, 2024
Does every nursing home need a value-based care strategy today? The answer, says Brian Fuller, ATI Advisory’s new managing director of value-based care design and delivery, is “unequivocally...
Feeding the community and the bottom line with an Unconventional service line
Oct 03, 2023
Pittsburgh-based Vincentian has been providing long-term care to its community for nearly 100 years, thanks to an order of Catholic nuns who set out to nourish the souls of 24 residents at the Holy Rosary...