Many long-term care providers seem to be experiencing a case of budget battle fatigue right about now. Yes, it was earlier this year that a fiscal cliff compromise was reached. And now two more budget-related...
Why long-term care operators are wary – and weary – of sequestration fiasco
By
John O'Connor
Feb 22, 2013
Well, here we go again. Less than three months after President Obama and Congress narrowly avoided walking off a fiscal cliff, we’re bracing for Round 2. Only this time, we’re all a bit worse...
Pruitt, Brachman become first Republican appointees to long-term care commission
By
McKnight's Staff
Feb 12, 2013
Neil L. Pruitt Jr. and Judith Y. Brachman are the first GOP appointees to the long-term care commission created as part of January’s fiscal cliff deal.
Long-term care commission’s work unlikely to fuel changes
By
John O'Connor
Feb 01, 2013
The fiscal cliff avoidance deal seems to prove an adage about politics being the art of compromise. But as tradeoffs go, long-term care providers didn’t fare too badly.
Food costs may take a bigger budget bite
By
McKnight's Staff
Feb 01, 2013
Long-term care facilities should prepare to pay more for food in 2013, with prices going up as much as 4%, according to a prominent industry voice.
Medicare has two more years to reclaim any overpayments
By
James M. Berklan
Feb 01, 2013
Providers will have to hold their breath a little longer after receiving Medicare payments, thanks to a little-publicized provision of recently signed fiscal cliff legislation.
Latest funding deal sidesteps fiscal cliff
By
John O'Connor
Feb 01, 2013
Providers generally lauded a deal that kept the nation from going over the so-called fiscal cliff in January. Spared were automatic Medicare cuts to physicians and facilities.
Long-term care providers dodge bullets in fiscal cliff deal, but CLASS (Act) is out
Jan 03, 2013
Long-term operators are cheering that Congress averted cutting Medicare payments through sequestration this week, and they’re glad that another one-year postponement of physician pay cuts didn’t...
No reason to cheer fiscal cliff ‘solution’
By
James M. Berklan
Jan 02, 2013
Should a person be congratulated and backslapped for simply doing his or her job? That’s the question that should be on people’s minds today as they ponder what has happened with fiscal cliff...
How can SNF’s and SLC’s combat their “fiscal cliff”?
Dec 26, 2012
This month, “fiscal cliff” has become as much a part of the American lexicon as Happy Hanukah and Merry Christmas. For most Americans, the fiscal cliff – a mandatory 3% contraction of...