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More investment in HCBS needed to end reliance on nursing homes, expert tells senators
By
Danielle Brown
Mar 24, 2022
Congressional leaders need to dedicate more Medicaid funding to home- and community-based services for people with long-term care needs to reduce their dependence on nursing home care and better help family...
Higher Medicaid spending away from SNFs here to stay, official says
By
Danielle Brown
Mar 09, 2022
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services expects that Medicaid’s recent trend of spending more on home- and community-based services than institutional care will continue for the foreseeable future,...
Medicaid continues shift away from SNF care
By
Danielle Brown
Mar 08, 2022
Medicaid spending on home-and-community based services out-gained spending on institutional care, like nursing homes, for a seventh year in a row, according to a new analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Home care gains not all coming at skilled nursing’s expense
By
Kimberly Marselas
Dec 07, 2021
The home care workforce has grown significantly in most states over the last 12 years, but not necessarily at the expense of nursing homes, a new study finds.
House passage of Build Back Better Act ‘major step forward’ for providers, seniors
By
Danielle Brown
Nov 22, 2021
The nation’s second largest nursing home association applauded U.S. House lawmakers on Friday after they passed legislation that would invest hundreds of millions of dollars into training long-term care...
Biden’s $400 billion proposal for HCBS won’t address all problems in LTC, expert warns
By
Danielle Brown
Apr 05, 2021
The Biden administration’s $400 billion effort to boost home- and community-based services is “ambitious,” but still missing critical pieces towards fully reforming Medicaid’s long-term care coverage,...
Senator calls for mandatory Medicaid coverage of HCBS as nursing homes remain under fire on Capitol Hill
By
Kimberly Marselas
Mar 19, 2021
On a second day of hearings targeting the nursing home industry and its COVID-19 response, senators repeated calls for data and ownership transparency but also urged more federal and state support for...
Some home care services may foster frailty, whereas PT prevents decline, data shows
By
Alicia Lasek
Mar 17, 2021
Frail elders who enrolled in a state Medicaid HCBS and used home nurse services were more likely to experience functional decline than those who did not. Their peers who received physical therapy were...
Nursing homes had ‘substantially higher’ COVID cases, deaths than those in HCBS programs: study
By
Danielle Brown
Dec 09, 2020
Seniors who live in nursing homes were at an increased risk of contracting and dying from COVID-19 compared to those who live in home-and community-based settings during the pandemic’s early months,...