Louisiana notifying 16K nursing home residents they could be forced out in funding fight
By
Kimberly Marselas
Mar 19, 2018
About 60,000 elderly or disabled Medicaid recipients in Louisiana are being told they should expect to lose their benefits in July, and advocates say more than a quarter of them could be forced out of...
REITs to shed skilled sites
By
Tim Mullaney
Jun 01, 2013
Large real estate investment trusts are looking to get out of the skilled nursing sector, according to the Wall Street Journal.
White House will not touch Medicaid in proposed budget
By
McKnight's Staff
Feb 04, 2013
The Obama administration will not cut Medicaid spending in its upcoming 2014 budget proposal, according to senior White House advisor Gene Sperling, director of the National Economic Council. Sperling...
Operators must embrace technology to reduce staffing costs, experts advise
Nov 11, 2011
Nursing homes can survive recent Medicare and impending Medicaid cuts by embracing the use of technology to reduce staffing costs, said experts in a McKnight’s webinar Thursday.
Most states proposing FY 2012 Medicaid cuts
Jun 07, 2011
Nearly all states are enacting Medicaid cuts for fiscal year 2012 to deal with overwhelmed budgets and a slow economic recovery, according to a new report by the National Association of State Budget Officers...
Arizona Senate committee votes to drop Medicaid program
Feb 24, 2011
An Arizona state Senate panel voted 8-5 in favor of bill that would cut the state’s Medicaid program, which is known as the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R)...
President vows to fight attempted repeals of healthcare reform
Jan 27, 2011
President Obama defiantly said he would fight any repeal efforts to his health care reform platform but added in his State of the Union address Tuesday night that he would remain open to ideas for improving...
Texas nursing home operators fear Medicaid cuts three times deeper than expected
Jan 26, 2011
The Texas House of Representatives’ budget proposal for fiscal 2012-2013 includes cuts to Medicare providers of 34%, which is three times higher than nursing home advocates expected.
Medicaid cuts easier said than done in Ohio, newspaper reports
Nov 16, 2010
In states such as Ohio, where budgets are getting more difficult to balance, Medicaid may seem like an easy target for cutbacks. But for every Medicaid dollar the state slashes, it loses $2 of matching...