Senators, consumer groups make final push to ditch nursing home arbitration clauses
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Aug 08, 2017
Long-term care consumer advocates and lawmakers heightened complaints Monday about the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ plan to allow binding arbitration clauses in nursing home contracts,...
Franken reintroduces bill to facilitate rides from nursing homes to medical appointments
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Tim Mullaney
Jan 22, 2014
More Medicaid dollars would flow to volunteers who drive nursing home residents to medical appointments under a bill recently reintroduced by Sen. Al Franken (D-MN). Seniors living in rural parts of Minnesota...