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Tragicomically, CMS asserts “this final rule will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities[.]” 

From some of our earliest memories in elementary school as little kids, we all recall participating in fire drills on a periodic basis. Of course, the purpose of those fire drills was to train students,...

Anyone who was working in healthcare in 2020 knows it was a rough year. When the lockdown happened, my staff with young children didn’t have daycare anymore. They didn’t have school anymore. The grandparents...

Since the onset of the pandemic, and more especially over the last two years, regulators have been cracking down on skilled nursing facilities. Research has shown that between 2015 and 2023, the share...

Setting up a building with proficiencies in working with managed care payers is a key to success at this midpoint of the 2020s.  Fifty-one percent of Medicare-eligible Americans are covered by Medicare...

Good emergency planning practices and regulatory compliance mandate that long-term care facilities identify the potential threats, perils, and hazards that can adversely impact operations both from an...

In my continued endeavor to win Mother of the Year, I really racked up some points this week.  Isaac, my youngest son, took a nice spill last Friday while skiing.  He suffered what we thought...

Let’s start the year boldly! I, Julie Thorson, the top expert in nothing and a leader who still has a lot to learn, declare 2024 the year of smiles.  Not “pleasant, I look nice on LinkedIn”...

There’s a key question more providers need to know the answer to: What is a contract exclusion? A contract exclusion details the medications and treatments that are not included in the levels of a managed...

Open enrollment is well underway for Medicare, as television viewers inundated with cheesy insurance company ads can tell.  Those ads must work.  For the first time 2024 will see most Medicare...