Providers have long struggled with offering telehealth due to reimbursement limitations. But the landscape is changing.
Providers accused of profit-hiding schemes
By
James M. Berklan
Feb 09, 2018
Nursing home critics are driving for deeper investigation into how operators “reward” themselves with lucrative self-dealing contracts while allegedly keeping staffing levels low.
Less heads in the beds: NIC
By
John O'Connor
Feb 09, 2018
How low can it go? That’s a question many operators are ask- ing in the wake of a report by the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care that reveals declining census numbers.
Anxiety is tied to Alzheimer’s
By
Elizabeth Newman
Feb 09, 2018
Anxiety symptoms that increase over time have been linked to elevated amyloid beta levels and the early signs of Alzheimer’s, according to Brigham and Women’s Hospital researchers.
An ER visit can signal decline
By
Elizabeth Newman
Feb 09, 2018
Visiting the emergency room can signal the beginning of serious health challenges for an older person even when he or she is not admitted, researchers from the Yale University School of Medicine contend.
Trump likely to push for regulatory relief
By
John O'Connor
Feb 09, 2018
At press time, President Trump’s State of the Union message was shaping up as one that long-term care operators would fondly remember. The White House has embarked on a pro-business agenda that tar-...
C. diff linked to food additive
By
James M. Berklan
Feb 09, 2018
Providers have been put on alert that a specific sugar added to hundreds of foods could fuel outbreaks of Clostridium difficile. Trehalose is a naturally occurring sugar used an additive for taste and...
Industry push to end therapy cap limits has come up short
By
James M. Berklan
Feb 09, 2018
Providers and Medicare Part B beneficiaries were hoping for a reprieve at press time from therapy caps that kicked into full effect when Congress failed to repeal them or extend a broad exceptions process...
Tough flu strains hit hard, plague elderly
By
Elizabeth Newman
Feb 09, 2018
Influenza hit most of the United States by early January, government officials said. ‘‘This is the first year we have had the entire continental US be the same color on the graph, meaning there is...
Ask the Legal Expert about… taking pictures of staff
By
John Durso
Feb 08, 2018
Can a client or patient take pictures of staff sleeping or relaxing on the job, or of his personal belongings?