Brookdale Senior Living explores use of artificial intelligence … Financial losses pile up for ProMedica subsidiary Paramount … Oklahoma judge orders Johnson & Johnson to pay $572 million in landmark...
Five attorneys general filed a lawsuit Friday challenging a new federal rule they say targets working immigrants and their families by creating unnecessary new barriers to lawful admission to the United...
HHS Office of Inspector General plans assisted living report
By
Lois A. Bowers
Aug 16, 2019
Assisted living providers who serve Medicaid beneficiaries will be the focus of a report released by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General in fiscal year 2020, the office...
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.
128 charges against 3 highlight importance of licensed assisted living facilities, ombudsman says
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 25, 2019
Three Maryland residents face a collective 128 charges of abuse and neglect of a vulnerable adult, financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult, embezzlement, theft, fraud and operating a combined total...
Personal care service reforms make OIG list of top unimplemented recommendations
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 23, 2019
A new report from the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General references personal care services and personal care services attendants, long-term care employee background checks...
OIG finds potentially ‘significant’ health and safety issues at HCBS sites
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 17, 2019
Kentucky put at risk the health and safety of some older and disabled adults receiving home- and community-based services through section 1915(c) Medicaid waivers because its annual inspections were “insufficient,”...
Long-term care gets candidate Klobuchar’s attention
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Lois A. Bowers
Jul 15, 2019
As Louisiana braced for the rains of Tropical Storm Barry on Friday, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) was preparing for another kind of wave — a silver one.
Esformes must forfeit interest in long-term care operating companies, judge rules
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 10, 2019
Philip Esformes, the Florida assisted living and skilled nursing facility owner found guilty in April of more than 20 charges in a case that the federal government described as “the largest single criminal...
OIG recommends increased oversight of hospice programs providing care in assisted living and other settings
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 10, 2019
The majority of Medicare-certified hospices had one or more deficiencies in the quality of care they provided to patients from 2012 through 2016, according to two reports released Tuesday by the Department...