Providers rally against looming cuts for standard lab tests
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 16, 2023
Lower laboratory testing fees are driving out competition and potentially limiting care for seniors who live in nursing homes, warns a coalition of providers fighting to replace the law that mandates rate...
Numerous Medicare funding ‘extenders’ at risk for expiration
By
John Hall
Mar 31, 2015
While long-term care professionals have at least two more weeks to agonize over the fate of a bill that would permanently repeal the current Medicare physicians funding formula, a host of other key funding...
Psychiatry company settles Medicare fraud allegations for $1 million
By
Elizabeth Newman
Jul 22, 2013
A New York company that provided psychiatry services to nursing home residents with dementia has settled a whistleblower Medicare fraud case for $1 million.