Occupancy decreased among skilled nursing facilities in March, after increasing for two months in a row, according to the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care’s most recent skilled nursing...
Iowa SNF faces $685,000 in fines for regulatory violations, is placed on CMS Special-Focus Facility List
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Dec 07, 2021
A nursing facility in Iowa has amassed more than a half a million dollars in fines, and has been added to the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Special-Focus Facility List.
Skilled nursing occupancy tops 82 percent for first time since April 2020
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Nov 07, 2023
Skilled nursing occupancy is up 142 basis points year over year as of the end of August. Occupancy reached 82.3% in August, topping 82% for the first time since April 2020, according to the latest Skilled...
EEOC: Employers must accommodate religious objections to COVID vaccine mandates
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 27, 2021
Employers with COVID-19 vaccine mandates must accommodate workers’ “sincerely held religious beliefs, practices and observances” against such requirements unless doing so would create an “undue...
Business briefs, Oct. 24
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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...
3 more states join lawsuit challenging CMS COVID-19 vaccine mandate
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Nov 29, 2021
Attorneys general in Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio joined more than a dozen states last week in challenging the legality of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ mandate of COVID-19 vaccines for...
‘Break that cycle’ of low nursing home reimbursement, wages, Collins says
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
May 24, 2021
Long-term care advocates received some encouragement from Thursday’s hearing of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee’s Primary Health and Retirement Security subcommittee....
Business briefs, Aug. 1
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 01, 2022
HHS, CMS mark 57th anniversary of Medicare, Medicaid … Wages, salaries increased 1.4%, benefit costs increased 1.2% since March: BLS … Greene County, IA Medical Center to close long-term care department...
Biden administration asks Supreme Court for stay from injunctions against CMS vaccine mandate
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Dec 20, 2021
As lawsuits mount from multiple states, the Biden administration asked the Supreme Court Thursday to reinstate nationwide the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ emergency regulation mandating...
Nursing facilities, CCRCs account for $196.8 billion in spending in 2020: report
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Dec 17, 2021
Nursing facilities and continuing care retirement communities accounted for $196.8 billion in spending in 2020, driven by COVID-19, according to an Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare & and...