AI can cut back on high-touch billing tasks, but some staff still see its as a high threat
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 13, 2024
Artificial intelligence can pay major dividends when it comes to managing back-office billing efforts, but the key to maximizing payments with it lies in knowing exactly where to build in coaching and...
Skipping tech over price tag an ‘opportunity lost’ for hesitant nursing homes
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 26, 2024
While it remains difficult to quantify how investments in technology are paying off, some skilled nursing providers say they are buying into more options because today’s margins don’t afford them missed...
Analysis: Government’s planned pay hike insufficient for staffing mandate
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Kimberly Marselas
May 28, 2024
A proposed pay increase for nursing home operators may be one of the best in recent memory, but it won’t adequately prepare the sector for implementation of the federal staffing mandate, one of the sector’s...
Technology, advocacy required to empower workers in LTC, healthcare’s ‘hardest setting’
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Kimberly Marselas
May 21, 2024
Most new nurses don’t choose to enter geriatrics so skilled nursing and senior living leaders are both going back to the basics and seizing on innovation.
Long-term care leaders return to basics, employ innovation to grow direct care staff
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Kimberly Marselas
May 20, 2024
Facing the reality that most new nurses don’t choose to enter geriatrics, senior living and skilled nursing leaders both are going back to the basics and seizing on innovation to expand their direct...
AHCA/NCAL’s Parkinson honors ‘real heroes’ in his own words
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 25, 2024
AHCA/NCAL President and CEO Mark Parkinson received the 2024 McKnight’s Pinnacle Awards Career Achievement Award on Thursday. Read his acceptance speech here.
Researchers’ app finally lets nursing homes and hospitals talk the same info-sharing language
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Kimberly Marselas
Dec 18, 2023
Attempting to reduce rehospitalizations, researchers have developed a new app allowing hospitals and nursing homes info-sharing capability.
Congress advisers back permanent telehealth expansions, look to nix in-person rule for behavioral telehealth...
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 12, 2024
Maintaining Medicare access to telehealth services must remain a priority, members of a congressional advisory panel said Thursday.
Long-term care pharmacies forced to borrow to buy resident drugs, close as intermediaries tighten grip...
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 08, 2024
Long-term care resident access to prescription drugs is being squeezed as several market and regulatory factors have combined to increase the power that pharmacy benefit managers have over the specialized...
Supreme Court spars over case that could limit power of federal agencies
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 18, 2024
Some Supreme Court justices on Wednesday signaled their willingness to give courts more discretion in interpreting “ambiguous” federal statutes rather than leaving that work to the agencies tasked...