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Maintaining Medicare beneficiaries’ access to telehealth services, especially for behavioral health, must remain an initial priority over payment reform or quality measurement, members of a congressional...

A new report published March 28 in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases showed the heavy clinical and financial burdens that result from invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) and non-invasive...

Nursing home patient access to prescription drugs is being squeezed as several market and regulatory factors have combined to increase the power pharmacy benefit managers have over long-term care pharmacies,...

Long-term care operator Petersen Health Care said it lis likely to sell off blocks of its facilities as part of its efforts to restructure and pay its debts after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last...

Parkinson’s therapy can include video games, study finds … Spotting biomarkers in middle age can predict older age brain health … No higher stroke risk in days right after COVID-19 shot among older...

The process of receiving a dementia diagnosis can be long and difficult, but some people have an even harder time because they can’t access neurologists. The disparities are based on race and ethnicity,...

The long-term care sector is recovering well from the worst challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, optimistic top leaders said. But some problems that began during the pandemic have only worsened with time,...

Facing stagnant pay and the inability to attract the staff it badly needed, the leadership of a skilled nursing facility in Red Cloud, NE, announced plans in late February to close for good. Only weeks...

For the second time in a week, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra faced a grilling on Capitol Hill over federal regulators’ plans to impose a nurse staffing minimum on all US nursing...

With ongoing federal Medicare reimbursements for telehealth set to expire at the end of the year, a bipartisan push is underway in the US House of Representatives to make those payments permanent.