Arbitration ban: AHCA sues CMS, NCAL worries about states
By
Lois A. Bowers
Oct 17, 2016
The American Health Care Association filed a lawsuit Monday challenging the legality of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ recently issued ban on pre-dispute arbitration agreements in...
NCAL joins other groups to support immigration bill that would recapture unused visas
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 04, 2024
The National Center for Assisted Living has joined other groups in backing a proposed immigration bill that seeks to reissue unused visas to healthcare professionals.
Business briefs, June 24
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jun 24, 2024
State nursing home, assisted living survey official resigns after lawsuit … Legislators call for veterans home in Oregon … Change Healthcare tells providers about data stolen in cyberattack … Looking...
More news for Monday, July 1
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jul 01, 2024
Senior living providers among 193 criminally charged, $2.75 billion in fraud recoveries so far in 2024 … 40 assisted living locations among AHCA/NCAL 2024 Silver National Quality Award recipients...
Phase 4 Provider Relief Funds awards coming a little later than previously announced
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Nov 23, 2021
Phase 4 COVID-19 Provider Relief Funds payments, previously expected to begin in mid-November, will be dispersed beginning sometime in December and continuing through January, according to the Health Resources...
Senior living career website expands to 17 states
Mar 22, 2019
Seventeen senior living, long-term and post-acute care associations across the United States have joined forces to address one of the most pressing issues facing operators, caregiver shortages, via a website.
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,...
Providers continue to face workforce challenges as Careers in Aging Week arrives
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Mar 27, 2023
The long-term care industry is celebrating frontline workers this week during Careers in Aging Week as they continue to face workforce shortages.
Proposed SNF tests would cost more than $400 million, AHCA claims
By
Amy Novotney
May 20, 2020
Testing all of the nation’s skilled nursing residents and staff just once for COVID-19 would cost $440 million, according to data released Wednesday from the American Health Care Association/National...
More news for Thursday, Sept. 14
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 14, 2023
Recruiting staff remains uphill battle for US CCRCs … Senior living occupancy on track for 9th consecutive quarter of gains … AHCA/NCAL releases 2023 #GetVaccinated provider toolkit to encourage fall...