State News Articles

Governor earmarks funds for SNFs in budget

February 01, 2012

Due partly to the average 11.1% reduction in Medicare payments to nursing homes that took effect in October, New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez (R) is asking state legislators to approve her state budget, which earmarks $8 million for skilled nursing facilities.
 

Study shows pay cuts expected to cost jobs

January 03, 2012

OHIO — The state's skilled nursing facilities have shed or plan to shed 2,800 jobs in the wake of recent Medicare and Medicaid cuts, new survey results show.
 

Whopping Medicaid cuts to hit nursing facilities hard

December 01, 2011

California has managed to gain Obama administration approval to cut the state's Medicaid program funding by $1.4 billion. Providers soon will feel the sting of 10% reimbursement cuts.
 

Facilities angered by retroactive cuts

November 01, 2011

NEW YORK - That the state health department cut nursing home Medicaid funding this year was enough of a sting, but having to recoup payouts from years before was the proverbial straw for nearly 36 facilities, which are now suing the state Health Department.
 

Ombudsman's treatment was illegal, inquiry finds

October 01, 2011

FLORIDA - Federal HHS investigators accused the state's Department of Elder Affairs of violating the Older Americans Act, capping a five-month investigation over a series of actions it claims unlawfully neutralized the powers of a nursing home watchdog program.
 

Nursing home residents risk losing bed holds

September 01, 2011

Ongoing Medicaid program cuts have now led to a game of musical chairs in the state's nursing homes, which no longer can hold the room of a resident who is temporarily hospitalized or leaves to visit friends or family.
 

State News: Ohio: Medicaid funding plan favors home care

August 02, 2011

OHIO — Instead of cutting its way out of an $8 billion budget shortfall, the state will instead shift more funding dollars away from nursing homes toward less costly home-based long-term care in a move that is being billed as one of the most profound Medicaid program overhauls in history.
 

State news: Joplin nursing homes mourn losses, sort through fallout weeks later

July 01, 2011

Six skilled nursing facilities are still sorting through the debris and fallout of lives and jobs uprooted from a tornado that nearly leveled the entire city of Joplin, MO, in late April.
 

CA: New website promotes psychoactive meds education

June 01, 2011

You've seen Jack Nicholson's portrayal of R.P. McMurphy in "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest," pretending to swallow pills given to him by Nurse Ratched in a small paper cup.
 

State news: Governor might soften proposed Medicaid cuts

April 01, 2011

MINNESOTA--Just days after approving expansion of the state's Medicaid rolls by 95,000 people in mid-February, Gov. Mark Dayton unveiled a fiscal budget that would cut Medicaid payments for long-term care by $87 million.