HCBS market recovers from drop that followed CMS proposal
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jun 12, 2023
Home- and community-based services markets are starting to recover after they “panicked” when the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in late-April proposed that 80% of Medicaid payments for HCBS...
Business briefs, March 27
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Mar 27, 2023
Bill closes ‘loophole’ in provider background checks … USCIS lifts COVID-related flexibilities … Biden’s budget would strengthen Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, HCBS, senator says … ORA...
Florida long-term care associations sue state over minimum wage mandate
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 30, 2022
Florida long-term care associations and one provider are challenging a requirement that, starting Oct. 1, providers in the state serving Medicaid beneficiaries — including assisted living communities...
Bipartisan legislation would expand access to advance care planning in Medicare
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 19, 2022
The Improving Access to Advance Care Planning Act pending in Congress would, if passed and signed into law, expand access to advance care planning services in Medicare.
Business briefs, Aug. 18
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 18, 2022
Provider sued over family members’ COVID-related deaths … EEOC publishes Digest of Equal Employment Opportunity Law … 40 states now cover around-the-clock Medicaid HCBS as provided in assisted living...
$1.3 million project aims to strengthen direct care workforce
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
May 05, 2022
A $1.3 million federal project, with funding spread out over five years, will establish a new center to help strengthen the direct care workforce providing home- and community-based services to older...
On-campus clinic brings primary care to senior living residents
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 25, 2022
Springfield Masonic Community and Dayton, OH-based Premier Health officially began operating the senior living community’s on-campus clinic April 4, with services ranging from routine primary care to...
Government underinvestment responsible for aging services infrastructure decline: LeadingAge CEO
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Mar 29, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought to light “decades of state and federal underinvestment in our aging services infrastructure,” Katie Smith Sloan, president and CEO of LeadingAge, wrote in an opinion...
Bill would exempt healthcare workers from vaccination mandates
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Feb 15, 2022
Healthcare workers in Tennessee who have religious objections to the COVID-19 vaccine would be exempt from vaccination mandates if Republican-led bill moves forward in the state General Assembly and is...
As legal issues mount, nursing home operator asks court to dismiss class action lawsuit
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Nov 16, 2021
The owner of seven Louisiana nursing homes embroiled in a class action lawsuit filed a motion in federal court Friday asking the court to di