HHS: Public health emergency likely to last rest of year
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jan 26, 2021
The federal public health emergency related to the coronavirus pandemic likely will extend through 2021, Acting Health and Human Services Secretary Norris Cochran said Friday in a letter to governors.
Public health emergency extended 90 more days
By
Lois A. Bowers
Apr 14, 2022
The federal public health emergency related to COVID-19 is being renewed effective Saturday, when the existing one was set to expire, the Department of Health and Human Services announced Wednesday.
Next court date set in Brookdale ‘whistleblower’ case
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jan 31, 2017
The next court date has been set in a case in which a former Brookdale Senior Living employee is accusing the company of submitting false claims and billing Medicare improperly.
Provider groups call for immediate implementation of RAISE Family Caregivers Act
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 06, 2018
The American Health Care Association / National Center for Assisted Living, LeadingAge and 72 other national organizations, in a June 28 letter, urged Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar to begin...
$484 billion COVID-19 relief bill contains $75 billion for PPE, but will senior living see any of it?
By
Lois A. Bowers
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Apr 22, 2020
The $484 billion funding package passed by the Senate Tuesday afternoon to provide relief from the effects of COVID-19 contains $75 billion for personal protective equipment and other resources for hospitals,...
Financial effects of pandemic hitting senior living hardest now, members of Congress tell HHS
By
Lois A. Bowers
Nov 16, 2020
Senior living operators need “urgent financial resources” to fight the coronavirus pandemic, a bipartisan group of members of the House of Representatives told Health and Human Services Secretary Alex...
Assisted living, post-acute providers have ‘room for progress’ in four key areas, HHS secretary...
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jun 06, 2018
Assisted living and post-acute care providers “will play a key role in the healthcare system over the next several decades,” HHS Secretary Alex M. Azar II said Tuesday. Both industries, however,...
91 groups, individuals praise bipartisan Alzheimer’s-related efforts in Senate
By
Lois A. Bowers
Dec 14, 2020
Twenty-seven organizations and 64 individuals told Sens. Pat Toomey (R-PA) and Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) that they are “particularly encouraged” by the lawmakers’ recommendation that the Center for...
$35 million ‘whistleblower’ lawsuit dropped against Brookdale Senior Living
By
Lois A. Bowers
Oct 07, 2019
A former utilization review nurse at Brookdale Senior Living who claimed the country’s largest senior living company fraudulently billed the Medicare program for $35 million dropped her lawsuit on Monday.
Members of Congress show support for affordable housing in bobbed Build Back Better Act
By
Lois A. Bowers
Oct 19, 2021
As negotiations between leaders in the legislative and executive branches of government continue over what provisions will be included in a slimmed-down Build Back Better Act, two “dear colleague”...