Want to improve Medicare Advantage? Deliver some real advantages
By
Kimberly Marselas
Aug 02, 2022
Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services put out a request for feedback on the Medicare Advantage program, which is rapidly becoming the nation’s preferred healthcare insurer provider...
Nursing home funding: Worth a closer look
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jul 19, 2022
The current nursing home funding system overlooks a simple fact: Living in a beautiful, updated home makes people feel better.
Why more long-term care operators are being nudged upstream
By
John O'Connor
Jun 12, 2022
There is continuing debate in long-term care about whether future success lies in upstream (increasingly healthcare focused) or downstream (increasingly service focused) services.
When it comes to long-term care, divided we stand
By
John O'Connor
May 08, 2022
Turns out a current movement in long-term care might deserve a certain moniker: The Great Divide. The term aptly describes a bifurcation now taking place between those who are shedding and those who are...
The healthcare worker vaccine mandate’s true fallout
By
James M. Berklan
Mar 17, 2022
OK, folks, it’s time to set things straight about the government’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Has it sent your workers fleeing for the exits, as countless long-term care leaders and stakeholders warned?
Nursing homes and the welcoming of reforms
By
James M. Berklan
Mar 03, 2022
Long-term care operators should actually welcome many of the reforms proposed by the administration this week.
Put this on repeat: Heroes shine in stormy weather
By
Kimberly Marselas
Sep 08, 2021
Hurricane Ida’s remnants inundated parts of New Jersey with up to 10 inches of rain in violent downpours last Wednesday, but an outpouring of support from the state’s largest private nursing home operator...
Upon further review, some of CMS’s latest proposal isn’t so grand
By
James M. Berklan
Jul 16, 2021
As is so often true with complex government regulations, the devil is lurking in the details of the proposed 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule rule.
Let’s put normalcy on seniors’ itinerary
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 23, 2021
It would be hard to argue that any group suffered — and in some cases, continues to suffer — more than U.S. nursing home residents.
In the battle against coronavirus, science always wins
By
Liza Berger
Oct 06, 2020
Science has been winning a lot of arguments lately. ake our president’s recent contraction of the coronavirus.