As reporting standards go, Payroll-Based Journal (PBJ) reporting stands out as notoriously difficult. It involves a lot of labor and can be prone to ratings-endangering errors. Meeting the PBJ reporting...
Catching payroll bandits
By
Elizabeth Newman
Jun 01, 2015
The big news last week wasn’t that two women were charged with stealing $144,000 from a nursing home in Pennsylvania. It was that their alleged scam lasted for three years.
I couldn’t live without … Kronos workforce management solutions
By
Elizabeth Newman
Jun 01, 2014
In overseeing payroll for employees at several dozen facilities, Lynne Kennedy had her hands full as Midwest Health’s accounting and payroll manager.
Feds join lawsuit against nursing home operator
By
Elizabeth Newman
Dec 17, 2012
The Department of Justice has joined a whistleblower fraud lawsuit against a former nursing home operator in Mississippi. The lawsuit was originally filed by Academy Health Center, which says the operator...
Long-term care operators join the rest of the nation in wondering: Will Congress pull a rabbit out of...
Dec 22, 2011
Long-term care providers and other caregivers — as well as significant other groups of people around the country — will be anxiously watching to see if the Senate and the House can get together on...
Three labor management practices to improve care, compliance and cost
By
Mark Woodka
Nov 22, 2010
Controlling labor costs in long-term care increasingly is important in this environment of tight reimbursements and challenging economic conditions.