Nursing-home study: Inspection system ‘broken and can’t be fixed’
Aug 13, 2008
A leading nursing-home association is calling for an independent panel to come up with new methods for overseeing nursing facilities. The association’s task force issued 31 recommendations Tuesday,...
Clinical briefs for Wednesday, March 31
By
Alicia Lasek
Mar 31, 2021
Antibiotics course for pneumonia could be 5 days shorter, trial suggests … Medicare survey: Men make more plan decisions, fewer elderly have Advantage plans, Midwest prefers supplement … Direct oral...
Providers: Survey shows lack of support for lawmakers favoring Medicare cuts
Jun 04, 2008
Two-thirds of voters polled said they would be less likely to vote for a member of Congress if he or she supports Medicare reforms that would lessen payments to nursing homes by $5 billion over five years....
CMS: A quarter of Medicare recipients skipped needed healthcare during pandemic
By
Alicia Lasek
Oct 21, 2020
Fully 21% of beneficiaries have forgone needed healthcare for something other than COVID-19. Nearly half say they did not want to risk being at a medical facility, according to CMS.
AHCA pressures CMS, lawmakers to wait on ‘five-star’ rating system
Nov 25, 2008
The pending “five-star” nursing home rating system should be delayed because it would not accurately reflect the quality of the nation’s nursing homes, the American Health Care Association...
Medicare eligibility comes with increase in tooth loss, Harvard study reveals
By
Alicia Lasek
Feb 10, 2023
When patients become eligible for Medicare coverage, restorative dental care immediately falls and tooth loss increases, a new study from Harvard University and Brigham and Women’s Hospital has found.
Nursing homes lukewarm to government’s new five-star rating system
Jun 19, 2008
Nursing home operators wasted little time Wednesday issuing rebuttals to the federal government’s announcement that it would create and publish individual facility rankings on its Web site by the...
Clinical briefs for Monday, Aug. 9
By
Alicia Lasek
Aug 09, 2021
Feds weigh withholding Medicare funding for LTCFs that don’t mandate vaccines … Physicians report 20% increase in burnout, new survey finds … Treatment of tenacious stomach bug that troubles elderly...
Voters oppose Medicare cuts to nursing homes, study finds
Mar 03, 2008
A newly released poll from Zogby International shows that 63% of respondents oppose President Bush’s proposed nursing home Medicare cuts.