Skilled nursing operators stand to reap their biggest Medicare raise in recent memory under a 3.0% market basket update proposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services late Friday afternoon.
Numerous states are trying to create a long-term care insurance program funded by a payroll tax, but it looks like Washington will be the first to actually do it.
Highly anticipated changes to the federal Five-Star Quality Rating System for nursing homes are set to kick in Wednesday, which is when a freeze on survey results will expire
Providers and public health officials said Tuesday that they are pursuing contingency plans to replace up to 2,500 nursing home workers who have threatened to strike at 20 facilities in less than two weeks.
If you’ve toiled around the skilled nursing field and been awake at the same time over the last year, you might have noticed there’s this PDPM thing that seems to be grabbing a lot of attention.
Skilled nursing’s downstream partners in assisted living will be gathering en masse Sunday through Wednesday at the Argentum annual meeting in San Antonio. Top issues concerning policy, housing, transitions of care, staffing, marketing and other key subjects will be featured in educational and keynote sessions. Featured speakers include Ann Compton, the first woman assigned to…
There was no consoling my friend the restaurateur. Since when did having a lot of top-notch dining options become a bad thing?
Mark Parkinson said he has strong concerns about possible regulator responses to expected changes in therapy usage patterns under the government’s new payment system.
Preparations for the spring advocacy conference of the American Health Care Association / National Center for Assisted Living are fully underway.
It was a brief but breathtaking illustration of just how the perceived role of therapists in the long-term care field has been turned on its head since the introduction of the new Medicare payment system, which starts October 1.
