AHCA, HHS seek quick timeline in federal staffing mandate case
By
Kimberly Marselas
Aug 13, 2024
The American Health Care Association, LeadingAge and four other parties in a federal lawsuit challenging the federal nursing home staffing mandate have told the case’s judge they expect a decision to...
COVID on the rise in nursing homes along with vaccine reluctance and mistrust
By
Jessica R. Towhey
Aug 11, 2024
COVID cases are on the rise again in nursing homes, and the largest nonprofit provider advocacy is asking the White House to create and stick to an annual vaccination schedule to help combat vaccine fatigue...
Resident advocates aim to protect voting rights in nursing homes ahead of contentious election
By
Jessica R. Towhey
Aug 08, 2024
With just three months left before Election Day, patient advocates are pushing long-term care facilities to make sure their residents are both registered to vote and able to cast their ballots.
Omega REIT touts ‘strong improvement’ in financials, stabilized occupancy
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 03, 2024
Omega Healthcare Investors has continued to accrue and reorganize its assets in a profitable way, exceeding Wall Street expectations.
Bipartisan group pushes for more investment, permanent telehealth for Medicare providers
By
Josh Henreckson
Jul 15, 2024
With a deadline to extend current telehealth reimbursement policies fast approaching, a bipartisan group of policy advocates is calling on legislators to make telehealth a permanent fixture of US healthcare...
Specialist visits to nursing homes could increase under doc pay rule proposal
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jul 12, 2024
A proposal tucked into the physician fee schedule issued last week includes a new payment mechanism that could improve follow-up care in nursing homes for post-surgical patients, including those with hip...
Health lawyers, bioethicist call for tighter regulation of AI in prior authorizations
By
Josh Henreckson
Jul 11, 2024
While artificial intelligence promises exciting efficiency benefits, its usage in insurance prior authorizations demands wider and more holistic oversight from state and federal bodies, a trio of experts...
Frustration, fury: Lawmakers renew push as new report skewers drug middlemen on pricing
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jul 10, 2024
An interim report issued by federal officials this week excoriated pharmacy sales middlemen over business practices that have grossly inflated drug prices — and made it harder for long-term care pharmacists...
After ‘offensive’ attack, Parkinson and Sloan push lawmakers for solutions, not shame
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jul 09, 2024
The two largest organizations representing US nursing homes this week fired back against a pair of influential lawmakers who have tried to paint industry efforts to stop a minimum staffing rule as motivated...
Proposal to make NHSN reporting permanent bypasses provider concerns
By
Josh Henreckson
Jul 01, 2024
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services would expand and extend COVID-era respiratory illness reporting requirements under a provision of the recently proposed Home Health Prospective Payment System...