State News: Nation’s first long-term care payroll tax set to resume
By
Kimberly Marselas
Apr 10, 2023
After state officials had delayed implementation of the nation’s first long-term care payroll tax, lawmakers this winter failed to defeat it permanently.
Also in the News for Wednesday, Sept. 7
By
Kimberly Marselas
Sep 07, 2022
Nursing homes picked up 12,000 workers in August … Life plan communities bracing for inflationary pressures following 2021 comeback … OIG urges CMS to reduce Medicare payments for certain catheters...
LTC insurance sales suddenly surge
By
Stephen A. Moses
Aug 10, 2022
Long-term care is a high risk and huge potential cost for aging Americans. Yet few plan ahead, and fewer still insure privately for this impending peril. Until now. Private insurers report that 140,000...
Long-term care’s mortal risk
By
Stephen A. Moses
Jun 06, 2022
Long-term and post-acute care operators have plenty to worry about. Low Medicaid reimbursements, harsher CMS regulation, caregiver shortages and the impending end to PHE accommodations, to name a few. ...
As first state long-term care program gets revisions, others show interest
By
Danielle Brown
Apr 19, 2022
How state lawmakers in Washington handle the fate of their first-of-a-kind, public long-term care insurance program is being closely watched by leaders in other states.
Trappings of LTC system leave operators trapped
By
Stephen A. Moses
Feb 23, 2022
The current LTC system traps operators in a public financing system that pays too little, expects too much, rewards cronyism, discourages creativity, punishes profit making and disserves aging Americans.
The irony of long-term care advocacy
By
Stephen A. Moses
Dec 17, 2021
Long-term care faces a world of hurt. The COVID pandemic worsened the profession’s chronic long-term problems including revenue shortfalls, caregiver shortages and wage pressures. Researchers, operators...
A payment program that should be fixed, not nixed
By
John O'Connor
Nov 22, 2021
Look, Washington state’s public insurance program is far from perfect. But if some opponents have their way, it’ll never even get started. And that would be a real loss.
What works for long-term care and what doesn’t
By
Stephen A. Moses
Nov 17, 2021
The history of long-term care is best understood as a tension between public and private financing. Over and over again, the private sector has intervened to fix or improve unfortunate conditions created...
Also in the News for Tuesday, Sept. 7
Sep 07, 2021
Maine delays enforcement of healthcare worker vaccine mandate by one month … Vaccination reduces long COVID risk, even in breakthrough cases, study finds … Nurse who raped, impregnated Arizona patient...