California study holds lessons for middle-market providers nationwide: NIC
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Nov 01, 2022
The first state-level assessment of middle-income older adults that the National Investment Center for Senior Housing & Care conducted has lessons for providers all over the country, NIC Senior Principal...
Feds include nursing homes, businesses in new COVID vaccination effort
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 27, 2022
President Biden on Tuesday called on more Americans, especially older adults, to get the updated COVID-19 booster shot ahead of upcoming holidays. In response, Albertson’s grocery store pharmacies and...
Business briefs, Oct. 27
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 27, 2022
Cigna champions vitality as a next-generation health measure … GAO audit: CMS ‘generally’ made COVID program payments to providers in compliance with federal requirements … State Medicaid spending...
Advocates urge governor to veto 3 ‘flawed’ bills penalizing use of overtime for nurses
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 26, 2022
Long-term care advocacy organizations are urging New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) to veto three bills related to the use of mandatory nurse overtime in nursing homes and home care agencies.
Annual nursing home, home healthcare spending more than double the recent rate of healthcare overall
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 25, 2022
Nursing home spending has increased 10.2% year over year; home healthcare, by 10.5%. released Friday. That’s nearly double the overall national health spending rate, which grew in August 2022 by 4.9%,...
HHS: $13 million investment in nurse education is ‘key pillar’ to improving SNFs
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 24, 2022
The US Department of Health and Human Services’ plan to spend $13 million on nursing education and training is “a key pillar of President Biden’s action plan to improve the safety and quality of...
Business briefs, Oct. 24
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 24, 2022
Home health provider, managers to pay $1.2M in Medicare fraud case … Omega Healthcare Investors declares cash dividend of $0.67 per share of common stock … Madison, WI, assisted living community to...
Erickson Senior Living’s MA plan earns 5 stars from CMS for third time in a row
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 17, 2022
Erickson Advantage, Erickson Senior Living’s resident-only Medicare Advantage plan, has received top recognition from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for the third consecutive year.
State staffing policies could hamper MedPAC’s recommendations on federal mandate
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 11, 2022
A federal minimum staffing mandate is on the horizon for nursing homes at the beginning of 2023. Providers and experts wonder just how the proposed mandate might address historic staffing shortages without...
Paper analyzes government policy’s role in creating LTC problems
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 11, 2022
The Medicaid program is largely responsible for problems in long-term care, according to a paper recently published by the Paragon Institute.