Long-term care resident Medicare beneficiaries spend $22,384 out of pocket for healthcare annually: study
By
Lois A. Bowers
Nov 06, 2019
Residents of long-term care facilities who have traditional Medicare coverage spent an average of $22,384 out of pocket for healthcare in 2016, the latest data available, according to a new analysis of...
Did Nancy Pelosi just kill Medicare for All?
By
John O'Connor
Nov 04, 2019
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday panned a Medicare for All proposal being forwarded by a number of Democrats currently running for president. Her implicit suggestion to fellow Democrats: Stick with...
Juniper’s care model, Connect4Life, to see national rollout under licensing agreement
By
Lois A. Bowers
Oct 22, 2019
Juniper Communities’ Connect4Life care coordination model soon will be finding its way into senior living communities across the country under the terms of a new five-year licensing agreement between...
New Medicare Advantage plan could serve 5,500 residents at 10 senior living organizations
By
Lois A. Bowers
Oct 03, 2019
Ten senior living and care organizations in the Minneapolis / St. Paul area will offer a new HMO institutional special needs plan to their residents effective Jan. 1 in what plan collaborators believe...
Welltower, CareMore collaboration aims to position senior living as low-cost care setting of choice in...
By
Lois A. Bowers
Sep 30, 2019
CareMore’s clinical programs and onsite care models will be integrated at some Belmont Village and SRG Senior Living independent and assisted living communities in Welltower’s portfolio.
Former Fed Chair Janet Yellen talks about recession, minimum wage, immigration, entitlements and ‘root...
By
Lois A. Bowers
Sep 13, 2019
Janet Yellen hit on numerous topics Thursday in the opening session of the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care Fall Conference.
Philip Esformes sentenced to 20 years in prison in healthcare fraud case
By
Lois A. Bowers
Sep 12, 2019
Former Florida assisted living and skilled nursing facility owner Philip Esformes has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in a case that the federal government continues to describe as “the...
Providers should be ‘actively involved’ as some Medicare beneficiaries begin receiving nonmedical...
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 26, 2019
Two reports issued Thursday focus on ways the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services can offer nonmedical supplemental benefits to chronically ill enrollees.
23 states, cities, municipalities sue federal government over ‘conscience rule’
By
Lois A. Bowers
May 23, 2019
A coalition of 23 states, cities and municipalities filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the federal government for a final rule that allows individual healthcare workers as well as healthcare organizations...
Podiatrist to pay $966,000 for fraudulent assisted living billing
By
Lois A. Bowers
May 22, 2019
An Arizona podiatrist has been sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay $965,985 in restitution to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services after he admitted submitting false claims for...