States may suffer in long run with cuts to services for elderly, news accounts suggest
Jul 31, 2009
In an effort to overcome budget deficits for the new fiscal year, many states have reduced Medicaid spending on services for low-income seniors. And that could have negative long-term implications, according...
Post-acute providers need electronic health records, too
By
Carol Everhart
Apr 21, 2010
The federal push to create electronic health records must include post-acute providers, such as skilled nursing facilities.
When two midnights doesn’t equal three days
By
Carol Levine
Sep 23, 2013
Hospital observation stays have been increasing, as have Medicare auditors’ denial of claims related to short inpatient stays on the basis that they should have been counted as observation stays....