Medicaid

Stagnant Medicaid rates aren’t just putting operators faced with outsized staffing costs into the red; in some places, they may be limiting access to the very capital providers need to sustain daily...

The chief financial officer for global dialysis provider DaVita Health is throwing cold water on the notion that the COVID-19 pandemic is ending anytime soon. 

Patients receiving telehealth care for a new health condition fared just as well as those who consulted with a provider through inpatient visits.

An analysis of sign-ins at 6,000 SNFs and senior living facilities found that third-party care such as home health visits remained consistent during the pandemic, while family visits were curtailed.

Lawmakers must first tackle “relatively low” Medicaid reimbursement rates for nursing homes if they want to prod providers into hiring more staff, adopting more home-like models of care and improving...

CHICAGO — The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is considering requiring nursing homes to spend a minimum amount of federal Medicaid reimbursement dollars on direct care workers as the agency...

Illinois nursing homes are in line for a $700 million funding increase if a Medicaid funding bill gets a key stamp of approval from lawmakers this week.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced Wednesday that it will pay for a second COVID-19 booster shot of either the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna COVID-19 vaccines for all Medicare beneficiaries. 

States must change the way they pay for nursing home services as they transition to managed care, and luckily they have multiple options to do so, according to a new report released Friday by Advancing...

Senators want answers on Medicaid recipients’ low vaccination rates … FDA approves diabetes drug Ozempic (semaglutide) in 2 mg dose … COVID-19 infection plus flu a dangerous combination: study …...