Owed $1 million, CMS tried to stop sale of regional nursing home chain
By
Joe Bush
Oct 13, 2022
The Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Services was trying to stop the pending sale of a bankrupt nursing home chain in Iowa before CMS and the buyers resolved the issues.
Also in the News for Tuesday, Aug. 2
By
Kimberly Marselas
Aug 02, 2022
National media blasts nursing homes’ attempts to collect debt from residents’ families … More details emerge in Avamere Health Services data breach affecting 380,000 individuals … Nursing homes...
CBO: Healthcare spending could spur federal debt to twice the size of the U.S. economy by 2037
By
McKnight's Staff
Jun 06, 2012
If the federal debt continues to grow at current rates, it is on track to be almost twice the size of the U.S. economy by 2037, driven largely by entitlement spending on baby boomers, a new analysis projects.
All eyes turn to deficit-reduction ‘super-committee’ and possible provider payment cuts
Oct 27, 2011
The president’s special debt-reduction ‘super-committee’ will hold a hearing Tuesday to review proposals, some of which include big healthcare-funding cuts. The secretive, bipartisan...
Getting proactive on hospital readmissions
By
Ben Adkins
Oct 21, 2011
Long-term care providers have plenty at stake when it comes to the issue of hospital readmissions, and working to reduce them. As debt ceiling talks and federal budget woes raise the specter of additional...